which is a left foot with only three toes. The original meaning of the character is Foot. I don't know when it changes meaning from Foot to Stop, but it should be very early, about 3000 years ago.
The big seal script of character Stop is
not much pictography as its shell bone script, but we still can see some degree of similarity.
The small seal script of Stop is
The clerical script for Stop is
As time passed, it changed its meaning to Stop. The ancient Chinese created another character to replace the Foot, its bronze script is
which is bronze script which was used in about 3000 years ago. The bottom is the foot above. There is dispute on what the top circle is? Some people think that it is the knee, and bottom is the foot.
However, Dictionary of Pictography -《象形字典》explanation is that the top circle is a city, the bottom is the foot walking into the city just as the army came back from the battlefield on foot.
The original character foot became to mean Stop. The rational should be that people need to use their feet to stop.
The big seal script of Foot is
The clerical script for Stop is
similar to its small seal script.
As time passed, it changed its meaning to Stop. The ancient Chinese created another character to replace the Foot, its bronze script is
which is bronze script which was used in about 3000 years ago. The bottom is the foot above. There is dispute on what the top circle is? Some people think that it is the knee, and bottom is the foot.
The original character foot became to mean Stop. The rational should be that people need to use their feet to stop.
The big seal script of Foot is
The small seal script for Foot is
similar to its small seal script.
The current standard printing script for Stop is
The current standard printing script for Foot is
Pinyin for 足 is "Zhu2".
There is very subtle difference between 止 and 足 , 止 is the foot up to ankle, 足 includes foot, ankle, maybe a little bit higher in leg but below knee.
The clerical script for Foot is
The current standard printing script for Stop is
止
The current standard printing script for Foot is
足
Pinyin for 止 is "Zhi3".Pinyin for 足 is "Zhu2".
There is very subtle difference between 止 and 足 , 止 is the foot up to ankle, 足 includes foot, ankle, maybe a little bit higher in leg but below knee.
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