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Watch picture and learn character (6) Cloth - 衣

Evolution of character Cloth

 


 

From left to right: shell bone script, bronze script, small seal script, clerical scriptsong typeface.

 

 


Cloth of Shang Dynasty


 

Explanation


Shell bone script of character Cloth: The top triangle is the hat crown; the bottom is the cloth with collars.


Bronze script of character Cloth: The top hat crown, the cloth is formed by cloth placket on two sides. There were no cloth buttons, people just tie the plackets together.


Small seal script of character Child: Similar to the bronze script, except the bottom plackets cross together.


Clerical script of character Child: the top hat crown with horizontal wings, the bottom strokes changed dramatically, difficult to tell which is which in comparison with small seal script.


Song typeface: Similar to clerical script.


The Pinyin of the character is Yi1.

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