Evolution of the character Music
From left to right:
shell bone script, big seal script, small seal script, clerical script, simplified song typeface
Ancient Chinese Hanging Bells for Music
Explanation
Shell bone script of character Music or Happiness: the bottom is character Wood , the top are two strings of bells which are different in size. People can make music by knocking the bells. The character also means Happiness or Happy, because when people listen music, they feel happy.
Big seal script of character Music or Happiness: Similar to shell bone script, except there is one more big bell in the top middle.
Small seal script of character Music or Happiness: Similar to big seal script.
Clerical script of character Music or Happiness: some similarity to older scripts but the bells on the sides are not a circle, open straight lines, the character lost most pictography.
Simplified Song typeface: the top completely changed without reasons, just to make less strokes, but lost all pictography.
The Pinyin of the character：Le4， Yue4
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