The evolution of character Vehicle
From left to right:
Shell bone, big seal, small seal, clerical scripts, and simplified song typeface
Ancient Vehicle
The Pinyin of the character Vehicle is Che1.
Explanation
Shell bone script of character Vehicle: the top is the cover; the two sides of the bottom are wheels.
Other forms of shell bone script
Before small script, the characters were not unified, one character could have many forms.
Big seal script of character Vehicle: It is a bird’s eye view. The left are two wheels, and the right are two vehicle pullers.
Small seal script of character Vehicle: Only vehicle frame left; wheels are eliminated.
Clerical script of character Vehicle: Similar to small seal script.
Simplified song typeface of Vehicle: similar to clerical script but the frame changed to a simplified form which is from cursive script, reduced some strokes but the pictography of the character is lost.
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