Amazing Chinese Characters (746）Hold - 秉

The shell bone script of character Hold is

The left is character Rice Crop (Post 34), the right is a hand holding the crop. The character means Hold, or Grasp, or Control, or Maintain, etc.

The bronze script of character Hold is

The middle from top to bottom is the rice crop, a right hand holds the crop.

The big seal script of character Hold is

Similar to bronze script.

The small script of character Hold is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Hold is

The top two strokes become straight, the bottom inward curve becomes stretched out because people who had paper wanted to stretch the horizontal strokes to release the uncomfortable restrictions on bamboo strips for thousands of years.

The Pinyin of the character is Bing3.