Sunday, August 24, 2025

Amazing Chinese Characters(767)Full of Life - 苏

The bronze script of character Full of Life is 

The top are two grass, left bottom is character Fish (Post 2), the right bottom is character Wood (Post 10). The character means a place with a lot of grass, wood, and fish, a full of life world.

The big seal script of character Full of Life is
The left top, the middle, and the bottom together is character Fish, the top right is character Wood. Grass is not showing. But the meaning is same: full of live.

The small seal script of character Full of Life is
The top are two grass, the left is fish, the right is character Rice Crop (Post 34), changed from character Wood in bronze and big seal scripts, but the meaning is same. Why did change? Because the rice crop was more important than wood in 2200 ago than 3000 + years ago when people more relied on the fruits on trees.  

The clerical script of character Full of Life is

The top is Grass Radical, the left is character Fish, the right is character Rice Crop.

The simplified song typeface of the character is 
The top is Grass Radical, the bottom is character Manage (not discussed yet), nothing to do with Full of Live. No idea where it is from.

The Pinyin of the character is Su1. 

 



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