Saturday, May 11, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (694) Basket for God - 匚

 The shell bone script of character Basket for God is


A vertical basket. Because there was no paper until East Han Dynasty (25–220 AD), people wrote characters on bamboo slips, which are very narrow, difficult to write wide in horizontal direction, therefore, many characters were written in vertical direction. The shell bone script of character Basket is one of them.

The basket here is huge, and people worship the God tablet inside. It is not normal basket. 

The bronze script of character Basket for God is

Similar to shell bone script, but the direction reversed.

The big seal script of character Basket for God is
Similar to older scripts, but only single line.

The small seal script of character Basket for God is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Basket for God is
Similar to older scripts.

The Pinyin of the character is Fang4.







No comments:

Post a Comment

Amazing Chinese Characters (752) Borderland - 陲

The bronze script of character Borderland is The left is cliff, the right is character Hang Down (Post 410). The remote Borderland is area w...