Amazing Chinese Characters (79) Prisoner - 囚

The big seal script of character Prisoner (or Prison) is

in side

is Person or People.

The big square or round outside represent small room. A person is in a small room, which means Jail or Prison. It is an ideogram character.

Its small seal script is

Its clerical script is

The current standard printing script is

囚

Its Pinyin is "Qiu2".