Amazing Chinese Characters (827) Strong - 壮（壯）

The bronze script of the character for Strong  

The left are two character of Bed Board (Post 635), here are Chopped Wood. The right is character of Stand (Post 70), which a big man stands on the ground. The big man who chopped a lot of wood is strong man. If you are a sergeant, and able to chop the wood, you are strong.

The big seal script of the character for Strong 

The left is chopped wood, the right is character Sergeant  (Post 826), which original means hoe, but from the bronze script, it should mean sergeant who holds a hoe, and chops the wood. 

The small seal script of the character for Strong 

 

The left is the character of Bed Board, here is chopped wood, the right is character sergeant.

The clerical script of the character for Strong 

The left is the clerical script of the character of Bed Board, the right it character of Sergeant. 

The song typeface of character for Strong

The left is simplified.

To be strong, you don't need to be a sergeant, and chop wood easily now. 

The Pinyin of the character for Strong is Zhuang4.