Monday, August 5, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (720) Troops - 旅

 The shell bone of character Troops is

The left is a flagpole, on the top of the flagpole is the flag. Under the flag, two people are standing in line. They are soldiers following the flag, which means troops.

The bronze script of character Troops is
Similar to shell bone script, but the lines are not smooth because poor metallurgical process in ancient time.

The big seal script of character Troops is
Similar to older scripts, but much better than bronze script because the metallurgical process was improved after hundreds of year since bronze script.

The small seal script of character Troops is
The left flagpole is disconnected from the flag on the top. The left flagpole becomes character Square - 方, and the flag becomes character People - 人. The reason why they changed like that is unknown, definitely not related to pictography of the character. Under the 人 (flag) are two character People.

The clerical script of character Troops is
The left is radical Square - 方, the top right is modified 人, the bottom right should be two people, but completely has any similarity to two character People.

The pinyin of the character Troops is LV3 
 




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