The top is 止，left foot (Post 93). the bottom is right foot. Left foot in front, followed by right foot. A person is walking forward step by step. It is an ideogram character.
The bronze script is
which is even clear: two footprints.
The big seal script of the character is
The big seal script of the character is
It is changed a lot, because the 止 changed, not lost some pictography.
Its small seal script is
Its small seal script is
which is big difference from the older scripts, even though we may see some similarity.
Its clerical script is
some similarity to its small seal script, but it is far from original pictography.
Its currrent standard printing script is
步
Very similar to clerical script.
Its Pinyin is "Bu4".
It still looks like footprints.
ReplyDeleteIt still looks like footprints.
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