Amazing Chinese Characters (67) Seedlings - 苗

The big seal script of character Seedlings is

the bottom is character "Field", and the top are sprout growing from the field. It is an ideogram and pictography character.

Its small seal script is

very similar to the big seal script.

Its clerical script is

similar to two older scripts, the bottom "Field" is rectangle, and the top seedlings become two vertical lines plus a big long horizontal line, which compromised the pictography of the character.

Its current standard printing script for traditional or simplified character is

苗

same as the clerical script.

Its Pinyin is "Miao2".