Amazing Chinese Characters (696) Medicine - 医（醫）

The big seal script of character Medicine is

The left is character Basket for God (Post 694) , but here is normal basket. The character Arrow (Post 38) is inside. Experts believe that the left of the character is an arrow basket. The right is character Spear (Post 590). The entire character means weapon storage, or a box carrying weapon for soldier, has nothing to do with medicine.

The small seal script of character Medicine is

The top is similar to big seal script, the bottom added character Liquor Jug. If we think the top is a soldier weapon box, the jug contains alcohol or Chinese medicine used to treat the injured soldier, which is a practice of medicine. 

The clerical script of character Medicine is

Similar to small seal script.

The pinyin of the character is Yi1.