Actually it is a picture of mortar with pestle. The ancient mortar was pottery, so it presented "Can". It is a pictography character.
Its bronze script is
Similar to shell bone script, but the bottom is an open mouth, more like the real can.
Its big seal script is
Similar to bronze script. There is a big dot in lower part of pestle which may mean that part is the most important.
Its small seal script is
Its clerical script is
It is similar to the older scripts.
The current standard printing script is
It is a character, but it is used as a radical related to pottery, which means as long as there is 缶 in one character, it must be something related to pottery or earthenware.
Its Pinyin is Fou3.
Its clerical script is
The current standard printing script is
缶
It is a character, but it is used as a radical related to pottery, which means as long as there is 缶 in one character, it must be something related to pottery or earthenware.
Its Pinyin is Fou3.
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