Monday, August 26, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (723) Receive - 收

The big seal script of character Receive is

The left is character Entangle (Post 721), the right top is a fork, the bottom is a hand holding the fork to hit the tied bundles of rice or wheat sheaves, which is the way ancient Chinese used to threshing in harvest season. People receive the grains after long time hard work.

The small seal script of character Receive is

The left has more entangled curves, the right is similar to that in big seal script.

The clerical script of character Receive is

The left is simplified entangled, even though it is not like entangled anymore. The right is Reversed Wen Radical, which means that a person holds a stick to hit something or someone.

The pinyin of the character is Shou1.




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