Saturday, May 18, 2024

Watch picture and learn character (3) Fire - 火

 The evolution of character Fire

 



 

From left to right

Shell bone script, big seal script, small seal script, clerical script.



Explanation


Shell bone script of character Fire: The shape of fire flame. It is a little bit like character Mountain, but the bottom is a curve, not a straight line as in character Mountain.


Big seal script of character Fire: The middle triangle support is firewood, the slashes on each side are fire flame. 


Small seal script of character Fire: The trifurcation in the middle is firewood, the slashes are the flame.


Clerical script of character Fire: The structure is similar to the small seal script, but the strokes are changed a lot.


The Pinyin of character Fire – 火 is Huo3. 

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