Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Amazing Chinese Characters (763) Sudden - 乍

The shell bone script of character Sudden is


the top is axe blade, the bottom is firewood or a trunk. The swinging axe blade spliting a firewood or a trunk makes sudden and big sound, which is the meaning of the character.

The bronze script of character Sudden is

It is possible from the reverse of shell bone script


The angles are different and the right vertical (close vertical) line extends to touch the next diagonal line just below. Why? I don't know.

The big seal script of character Sudden is

similar to the bronze script. 

The small seal script of character Sudden is


Similar to big seal and bronze scripts except the right top, the reason why it changed like that? I don't know.

The clerical script of character Sudden is

Not much similarity to old scripts. However, we could get some hints: the top is from the top right 人 in small script, the bottom is a little bit similar to the left and bottom of small seal script.

The Pinyin of the character is Zha4.





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