The shell bone script of character Fold is
The left are two character Grass (Post 40), the right is character Catty or Jin, meaning hatchet here. The left should be a long grass, cut by hatchet. Chinese 折 has meaning of folding and breaking. It emphasizes folding process, the result may be broken, may be not.
The bronze script of character Fold is
The left is same as shell bone script, the right is character Catty or Jin, meaning to cut.
The small seal script of character Fold is
Here is interesting. The left looks like a long grass, but it is character Hand.
which is an understandable mistake: they people of Qin Dynasty mistakely wrote a character Hand for long grass.
The right is character Catty or Jin, a scissors for cutting.
The clerical script of character Fold is
The left is Radical Hand (mistake continues), the right is character Catty or Jin.
The pinyin of the character is Zhe1.
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