Amazing Chinese Characters (672) Wish - 祝

 The bronze script of character Wish is

The left is character Display, the right is character Elder Brother, which may be the one who is older than you or other people, has more experience, most respected. He is kneeling in front of a display table with some foods for pray. He is praying for good wish for people he represents. 

The big seal script of character Wish is

The left is character Display, the right is character Elder Brother without kneeling down because the pray didn't need kneeling down any more, or just a simplification of the character.

The small seal script of character Wish is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Wish is

The left is Radical Display, the right is character Elder Brother.

The Pinyin of the character is Zhu4.

The character means Congratulation on, not Prey in most of time now.

Amazing Chinese Characters (671) Raise - 养（養）

 The shell bone script of character Raise is

The left is modified character Sheep or Goat, the right is a hand holding a stick. The character means that a shepherd herds sheep with a whip or stick.

The bronze script of character Raise is

The left is modified character Sheep or Goat, the right is a hand holding whip or stick.

The big seal script of character Raise is

The top is modified character Sheep or Goat, the bottom is a food utensil. The character here means that to feed the family with cooked lamb.

The small seal script of character Raise is

The top is modified character Sheep or Goat, the bottom is the food utensil. 

The clerical script of character Raise is

The top is modified character Sheep or Goat, the bottom is character Good Person, which is a mistake. Because character Good Person looks like character Food 食，but the top 人 is belong to the character Sheep or Goat on the top, therefore, the bottom is not character 食，but 良.

The simplified song typeface is 

The top is same as its clerical script, the bottom is changed to one falling left stroke plus one vertical stroke, which means nothing, but reduced the number of strokes. The pictography of the character is totally lost.

The pinyin of the character is Yang3.

Amazing Chinese Characters (670) Latitude - 纬

 The big seal script of character Latitude is

The left is character Silk, the right is character Wei, meaning walking around a villege to protect it. The character Latitude means that the horizontal wire in the weaving.

The small seal script of character Latitude is

Similar to its big seal script.

The clerical script of character Latitude is

The left is Radical Silk, the right ti character Wei.

The pinyin of the character is Wei3.

The character means horizontal line, and latitude now.

Amazing Chinese Characters (669) Surround - 围/圍

 The bronze script of character Surround is

The inside is character Wei - 韋, which means patrol and guard; Outside is a big circle, means city wall. The character means that patrol and guard the city. Actually, the character 韋 and  圍 have the same meaning, just 韋 is earlier when the city had no wall, 圍 is later when the city inside had wall surrounded. 

The big seal script of character Surround is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of character Surround is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Surround is

Very similar to small seal script.

The simplified song typeface is

The inside 韦 has changed dramatically, it is from cursive script, lost the pictography completely.

The Pinyin of the character is Wei2.

Amazing Chinese Characters (668) Shan - 陕，Gorge - 峡

The big seal script of character Shan is

The left is cliff, the right is character Clip. There are many ravines in Yellow Plateau where Shan Xi Province is located. The character becomes the abbreviation of Shan Xi Province, but the original meaning of ravine is not known by most of people.

The big seal script of character Gorge is

The left is character Mountain, the right is character Clip. This character is for Gorge among mountain area, normally it is bigger than ravine, most of time there is a river between the two mountains. The ravine is between two hills, normally no river in between. 

The small seal script of character Shan is

Similar to its big seal script. 

There is no small seal script of character Gorge, which means the character was not popular, probably Gorges are less seen than Ravines.

The clerical script of character Shan is

The left is Radical Er (looks like er, but means cliff), the right is character Clip.

The clerical script of character Gorge is

The left is character Mountain, the right is character Clip.

The Pinyin of character Shan (陕）is Shan3, the pinyin of character Gorge is Xia2.

Right now, the meaning of ravine of character Shan (陕）is disappeared. Gorge is used for ravine most of time.

 

Amazing Chinese Characters (667) Coerce - 挟

 The big seal script of character Coerce is

The left is character Hand, the right is character Clip. A person is held by two people using their hands, forced to do something he doesn't want.

The small seal script of character Coerce is

Similar to its big seal script.

The clerical script of character Coerce is

The left is Radical Person, the right is character Clip.

The Pinyin of the character Clip is Xia2.

Amazing Chinese Characters (666) Knight - 侠

The big seal script of character Knight is

The left is character People, the right is character Clip. A person who holds two people with his arms, is Knight because he is strong and good at fight.

The small seal script of character Knight is

Similar to its big seal script.

The clerical script of character Knight is

The left is Radical People, and the right is character Clip.

The pinyin of character 侠 is Xia2.