Sunday, April 21, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (687) Hunt - 猎(獵)

 The bronze script of character Hunt is

The left is character Dog (Post 116), the right is character Rodent.

The bronze script of character Rodent is

very similar to character Mice or Rat.

Let's see the big seal script of character Mouse or Rat (Post 119)

The big seal script of character Mouse or Rat

Mouse or Rat is Rodent.

The dog is helper of hunter. The right top 巛 on the right is explained by all dictionaries including 漢典: animal long hair. I disagree. The 巛 is simplified 川, which means river or water flow. Here it means wet. There are two possibilities: 1, after killing the rodent animal, it is covered blood, kind of wet. 2, people preserved extra meat by smoking them. After smoked, the meat looks sloppy, same as people preserve meat with salt, and smoke them on the beam. The preserved meat looks black,  oil seeps out, kind of wet. The first case is more likely.

The small script of 巤 is
Similar to bronze script.

The big seal script of character Hunt is


Similar to the bronze script: the left is character Dog, the right is character Rodent.

The small seal script of character Hunet is


Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Hunt is
The left is Radical Dog, and right is character Rodent.

The song typeface of character Hunt is


The right part changed to character Old Days (Post 326), which is confusion. Hunting is Old Days activity? Not really. 

The Pinyin of the character Lie4.




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