The evolution of character Happy
From left to right
Shell bone, bronze, small seal, and clerical scripts
Ancient Drum
Ancient Drumming and Singing Artist
The pinyin of character Happy：Xi3
Explanation
Shell bone script of character Happy: The top is a drum.
One line is missing because the shell bone script is not unified, there are different forms of the character Drum. The bottom is a mouth. When the artist beats the drum, which is a sign that the show would start soon, the audiences are smiling because they are happy for the upcoming show.
Bronze script of character Happy: Similar to shell bone script.
Small seal script of character Happy: Similar to big seal script.
Clerical script of character Happy: Some similarity to older scripts, but all curves are straight lines now, lost most pictography.
Two character 喜 form a new informal character “Double Happiness” as the one below
Which is widely used in China, as long as you see big “Red Double Happiness” character on door, window, the wall of room, the window of car, you should know that some people are getting married right now, and just married a few days ago. Therefore, Double Happiness is the most used character in China because most people could use it at least once in their life.
However, it is not official character, you can’t find it in any dictionary. Strictly speaking, it is not accepted by experts, and government. But no one says it is wrong, and all people have used it for at least hundreds of years.
I hope that the experts recognize this contradiction, accept it as formal character, and include it in the dictionary
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