The evolution of character Fire
From left to right
Shell bone script, big seal script, small seal script, clerical script.
Pinyin: Huo3
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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