Amazing Chinese Characters (824) Save - 省

The shell bone script of the character for Save 

The bottom is character Eye (Post 17)

The top is character Grass (Post 772)

An eye is looking for a grass on it, which means that the eye is checking every tiny details to find out where is necessary, where is wasting like a keen eye. In order to save something, you need this kind eye. 

The character changed the meaning to more introspection such as Reflection, Wake up to. The character also has meaning of Province, which was original used as Imperial Resident Office, which was to supervise and regulate the local governments in operations and financial situation.  

The bronze script of the character for Save

 

Similar to shell bone script.

The small seal script of the character for Save

The top 屮 is the  grass，the bottom 目 is the eyelid. The 目 is a vertical eye. 

The clerical script of the character for Save

The top is character for Young (Post 790), which is wrong in meaning, and no similarity to old scripts. The bottom is character Eye. 

The Pinyin of the character for Save is Sheng3.