Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Amazing Chinese Characters (780) Garrison - 戍

The shell bone script of character Garrison is

The right is character 戈 (Post 80),  left bottom is character Person (Post 37). To protect people by weapon is Garrison.

The bronze script of character Garrison is


Similar to shell bone script except the character Person has some deformation due to immature metallurgical techniques at that time.

The small seal script of character Garrison is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Garrison is

The person in older scripts is a dot under the 戊 (Post 778), which is very similar to character 戌 (Post 779) 
Only the angle is different.

The Pinyin of character 戍 is shu4.






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