Thursday, June 20, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (706)Huge - 巨

The bronze script of character Huge is


The middle like

is character Work (Post 465), meaning mortise-tenon structure. The middle circle is the handle for two workers to hold in order to lift the huge structure. The handle indicats the structure is big and heavy.

The big seal script of character Huge is
The left is a big mortise-tenon structure, the right is a person who lift the structure with his hand holding the handle. It may mean the structure is huge, or the person is big.

The small seal script of character Huge is

similar to the left of big seal script above, one handle huge structure.

The clerical script of character Huge is

The handle becomes square, the structure is not symmetrical, lost some pictography.

The Pinyin of the character is Ju4.



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