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.