Amazing Chinese Characters (713) Night - 夜

 The bronze script of character Night is

The middle is character Also, Too, As Well with the right dot replaced by character Evening (Post 52). As we see in the Post 710, the two dots are shadows of the arms, right now one dot is changed to character Evening, which means the moon in the evening. The character means the shadow of the body under the moon, which is only happening at night (there is moon in the evening, but the shadow is too light to be noticed.

The big seal script of character Night is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of character Night is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Night is

The " 大“ change to two parts: 亠 + 亻. It is odd. The purpose is to give space for the other part "夕 + dot“ inside, which is a modified character Evening. The change is the bottom dot becomes a long falling right stroke, which is the typical clerical script, also it makes the character looks balanced. 

The Pinyin of the character is Ye4.