Amazing Chinese Characters (719）Spin - 旋

The shell bone script of character Spin is

The left and top combination is the flagpole and flag. The bottom is a foot, the 口 is believed to be the cross section of leg. People see the flag and legs and feet walking, which means that troops come back from battlefield. 

The bronze script of character Spin is

The flagpole and flag are similar to shell bone script, the bottom is character Foot, the 口 is missing.

The small seal script of character Spin is

Again the left flagpole becomes character Square, the right top 人 is the flag. The right bottom is the moving leg and foot. 

Let's see the small seal script of character Foot

In comparison with the foot in character Spin above, we see the difference is on the top circle: it is a closed ring in character Spin, an open ring in character Foot. The closed ring means no change anymore, open ring means changing, and moving.

The clerical script of character Spin is

The left is Radical Square, and the right is flag on the top, and moving leg and foot, character 疋.

What is the difference between character 疋 and 足？ 足 is foot, stationary foot, 疋 is a moving foot, including spinning foot. 

The Pinyin of the character Spin - 旋 is Xuan2.