Monday, June 3, 2024

Watch picture and learn character (19) Pot - 壶(壺)

The evolution of character Pot

 

From left to right

Shell bone, big seal, small seal, clerical scripts, and simplified song typeface

 


Ancient Liquor Pot

 

The pinyin of character Pot:Hu2

 

Explanation 

Shell bone script of character Pot: A ancient pot with two ears on the sides.


Big seal script of character Pot: Similar to shell bone script, but the two ears changed to a circle, which is odd, not real.


Small seal script of character Pot: Similar to big seal script.


Clerical script of character Pot: Some similarity to older scripts, but lost most pictography of the original script.

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