Amazing Chinese Characters (793) Guangdong - 粤

The shell bone script of character Guangdong is

The top is character Rain - 雨 (Post 8), the bottom is character At or Proposition - 于 (Post 488), which means "poor airflow". The character means that Guangdong is a place where it is rainy and stuffy.

The bronze script of character Guangdong is

 

The top is character Rain, the bottom is character At or Proposition. Guangdong is rainy and stuffy.

The big seal script of character Guangdong is

The right is character At or Proposition; the left is unknown character. The left is character Rice - 米 (Post 163) in a rounded triangle. I guess what happened is that the character Rain is misunderstood to be character Rice, but the rounded triangle is from no where. 

One possibility is that some one recreated the character with different meaning: left is a rice cooking pot. Then the character could mean a place where rice is the major food, and climate is stuffy. If it is true, the character should mean the area belong Guangdong which is true, ancient China, the character 粤 means at least Guangdong, Guangxi, and Vietnam.

The small seal script of character Guangdong is

The top is Radical Roof, under the roof is character Rice, a miss present for raining drops. The bottom is character At or Proposition.

The clerical script of character Guangdong is

Similar to small seal script, but more straight strokes.

The song typeface of character Guangdong is

 

Similar to clerical script.

 

Pinyin of the character is Ao4.