Amazing Chinese Characters (773) Entrust - 委

The big seal script of character Entrust is

The top is character Rice Crop (Post 34), the bottom is character Woman (Post 20). A woman bears heavy rice crop on her back or shoulder, which is a hard work suppose to be taken by men. Right now, may be lack of labor, may be for saving money. Anyway, it is unreasonable entrust arrangement. The image you could have is a small lady bent her back, twisted her body to walk with heavy rice crop on her shoulder.

The small seal script of character Entrust is

Similar to big seal script, Rice Crop on the top, the Woman on the bottom.

The clerical script of character Entrust is

All lines are straight or close to straight.

The Pinyin of the character is Wei3.

委 has other meanings close to its original meaning: 

1, 委身：a woman is forced or half forced to be a wife or girlfriend of a man

2, 委屈：wronged

Pictographic Interpretation of Chinese Characters 止，步，涉

Pictographic Interpretation of Chinese Characters 止，步，涉

 https://youtu.be/Oe1yYqWzxGc

Amazing Chinese characters (773) Zhao - 赵（趙）

The bronze script of character Zhao is

The left is character Walk - 走 (Post 96), 

The right part is character Shrink - 肖（480）

which is small moon, which means the dark night. We see full moon, half moon, and small moon. Full moon night is the brightest, and the small moon night is darker even though better than no moon night. The small moon is also meaning that the moon shrinks.

Who walks (fast walking) in dark night? Most likely the burglars or soldiers rushing to the war battle field. 

The big shell script of character Zhao is

Walk + Shrink.

The small seal script of character Zhao is

Similar to big seal.

The clerical script of character Zhao is

Walk + Shrink.

The song typeface of character Zhao is

The X replaced character 肖 is bad, because X is not good meaning in characters, for example, 凶 - Fierce (Post 312), means Risk, and Danger. The replacement is not only destroyed the pictographic, but also changed to meaning to "Walking with risk or danger". 

The Pinyin of the character is Zhao4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (772) Grass (ancient) - 屮

The shell bone script of character Grass (ancient) is

A newly grown grass. 

The bronze script of character Grass (ancient) is 

Similar to shell bone script.

The big seal script of character Grass (ancient) is

Similar to older scripts, but the curve is very smooth and symmetrical.

The small seal script of character Grass (ancient) is

Very similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Grass (ancient) is

Similar to older scripts, but all lines become straight lines.

The Pinyin of the character is Che4.

The character was replaced by character 草 long time ago, it has not been used as grass alone but it is used in compound characters as a radical part. For example, the big seal script of 草字头 - Radical Grass is

Two 屮 together.