Amazing Chinese Characters (665) Too - 也

The big seal script of character Too is

which is like the character for Snake, but it is a tongue. In 3500+ years ago, the tongue symbolizes communication with the divine. The character became meaning of Too, to confirm something is also the same, which people might have thought that the divine also agrees the claim. 

The small seal script of character Too is

Some similarity to big seal script. 

The clerical script of character Too is

No similarity any more. We just can imagine that the middle vertical stroke + the left vertical stroke turning to bottom tail is the tongue alike part of the older scripts, the horizontal from left to right turn is the snake head like part. 

The pinyin of the character is Ye3. 

Amazing Chinese characters (664) Ancient Lapel - 衽

 The big seal script of character Ancient Lapel is

The left is character Cloth, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems, here means "the key area of cloth". Probably because you have to hold the area to take on or take off the cloth.

Generally speaking the Lapel is the black wide belt "y" from the neck down to right waist, restrictedly speaking, it is the bottom of black "y" (below the "v") is the meaning of the character. It was very popular in ancient China, people created a character to represent it. But there have been no this kind cloth for one thousand of years, so most of modern Chinese don't know what the character means.

The small seal script of character Ancient Lapel is

The left is character Cloth, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems.

The clerical script of character Ancient Lapel is

The left is Radical Cloth, the right is The ninth Heavenly Stems. 

The pinyin of the character is Ren4.

Amazing Chinese characters (663) Pregnancy - 妊

 The shell bone script of character Pregnancy is

The left is character Woman, the right is character Work. A lady who is loaded with heavy work - pregnancy. 

The bronze script of character Pregnancy is

The left is character Woman, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems, here it means mortise - tenon structure, a complicated structure.

The big seal script of character Pregnancy is 

Similar to bronze script.

The small script of character Pregnancy is

the left is character Woman, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems, mortise-tenon structure.

The clerical script of character Pregnancy is

The left is Radical Woman, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems.

The Pinyin of the character is Ren4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (662) Person in Charge - 任

 The shell bone script of character Person in Charge is

The left is character Person, the right is character Work, a mortise-tenon structure. A person holding the mortise-tenon structure is the one who is in charge because mortise-tenon structure is very complicated, only people who are very good at the structure design and engineering with experience can handle the task.

The bronze script of character Person in Charge is 

The left is charter Person, the right is character The ninth of Heavenly Stem, the middle dot is the indicator to show the point the person holding.

The big seal script of character Person in Charge is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of character Person in Charge is 

The left is character Person, the right is character The ninth of Heavenly Stem.

The clerical script of character Person in Charge is

The left is Radical Person, the right is character The ninth of Heavenly Stem.

The Pinyin of the character is Ren4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (661) The ninth of Heavenly Stems - 壬

 Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches together form a Chinese calendar circle. There are ten characters in Heavenly Stems, the ninth is the character we are discussing. There twelve characters in Earthly Branches. They pair up to form 60 pairs to count the years. It is difficult and unnecessary to go detail of this system, we just need to know, the character we discuss right now is one of Heavenly Stems.

The shell bone script of character of Then ninth of Heavenly Stems is

which is character Work (Post 465),  it is ancient mortise-tenon structure

The bronze script of character The ninth of Heavenly Stems is

Similar to shell bone script, except the dot in the middle of the vertical bar. The dot is an indicator, which indicates someone holds the mortise-tenon structure in the middle to assemble the structure. 

The big seal script of The ninth of Heavenly Stems is 

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of The ninth of Heavenly Stems is

Similar to older scripts, except the dot in the middle becomes a horizontal line. 

The clerical script of character The ninth of Heavenly Stems

Similar to small seal script except the top stroke becomes a little falling left stroke, which is to distinguish the character from character King - 王.

The Pinyin of the character is Ren2.

The original meaning of the character - working with mortise - tendon structure is disappeared. It is only used to be the ninth of Heavenly Stems. I don't know why.

Amazing Chinese Characters (660) Whole - 弥

The bronze script of character Whole is

The left is character Bow

The right is character You, means big arrow. If you have a bow and the biggest row in the world, you will get the whole world. 

The big seal script of character Whole is

The left is character Bow, the right is character Sun on the top, and You below the Sun. To conquer the world in sunny day, or after having conquered the world, the sun is shining everywhere. 

The small seal script of character Whole is

The left is Bow, the right top is You as the one below

But there are three horizontal lines, which may be the base where the big arrow stands.

The clerical script of character Whole is

The left is Bow, the right is You - a big arrow.

The simplified song typeface of character Whole is

The left is Bow, the right is simplified song typeface of character You, lost pictography.

The Pinyin of the character is Mi2.

Amazing Chinese Characters (659) You (Old Fashion) - 汝

 The shell bone script of character You is

The left is character Water, the right is character Woman. A washerwoman was a labor. People used washerwoman to be You for those who are in low society position, which is different from the character 尔, which is King or Generals who are in high society position. 

The small seal script of character You is

The left is character Water, the right is character Woman.

The clerical script of character You is

The left is Radical Three Drops, the right is character Woman. 

The pinyin of the character is Ru3.