Watch picture and learn character (9) Boat - 舟

Evolution of character Boat

 

From left to right: 

shell bone script, bronze script, big seal script, small seal script, clerical script

 

Boat

 

Explanation

Shell bone script of character Boat: a simple small boat structure.

Bronze script of character Boat: similar to shell bone script. The top line is open, I don’t know why.

Big seal script of character Boat: Similar to bronze script.

Small seal script of character Boat: the lower half is similar to older scripts, the top long curve line is the head of boat, which may be the more complex boat head such as the head of dragon boat.

Clerical script of character Boat: the structure of boat has similarity to older scripts, but the big simplification on the head dot replacing the long curve, the two dots in boat replacing the two lines, the middle long horizontal line extended to out of the boat to get a typical clerical script stroke “the Wave stroke”. The pictography is most lost, but people could write the character much faster, which the main purpose of people at that time.

 

The pinyin of the character Boat is Zhou1.