Amazing Chinese Characters (761) Larva - 孓

The big seal script of character Larva is

similar to big seal script of character Child

The difference is that the character Child has two arms not upward, but Larva has only one arm up, another downward. What does it mean? I guess it means that the arm downward implies the child is weak like Larva. So its original meaning is small and weak.

The small seal script of character Larva is

which is similar to character Alone

just missing an arm on the different side, here it means Alone too, which is different from Small and Weak, or Larva. I guess is that the character evolved, the meaning of Larva gradually lost, but not completely, the new meaning of Alone was added on, especially when people used the two characters 孑孓 together， which emphasizes the Along, or Lonely. 

The clerical script of character Larva is

the middle line is different direction from that in character Alone (孑）

The Pinyin of the character is Jue2.

The character is used rarely alone. occasionally used with 孑：孑孓, meaning is Lonely.