Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (753)Sleep - 睡

The big seal script of character Sleep is

The left is character Eye (Post 17), the right is character Hand Down (Post 410). One's upper eyelids are dropped, he is sleeping or wants to sleep.


The small seal script of character Sleep is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Sleep is
The left is Radical Eye, the right is character Hand Down, but all lines are straight, lost pictography.

The Pinyin of the character is Shui4.






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