The shell bone script of character Village is
The top bulge is filling of grain, which has two meanings: grains, and growing, which all happen in farm field of remote village.
The bronze script of character village is
The bulge in shell bone script becomes a dot, the rest is the grain. The dot is also called an indicative point, which shows where the meaning of the character is. In this case, the main meaning of the character is the filling of the seed, nothing else.
The big seal script of character Village is
The small seal script of character Village is
The top horizontal line is the dot in bronze and big seal scripts because there is no dot in small script, all dots are replaced short lines. The rest is the grain.
The clerical script of character Village is
The Pinyin of character 屯 is Tun2.
The original meaning of "filling" is disappeared, but changed to Village where the filling happens. It also means Station (Army), Store up (Grain).
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