Amazing Chinese Characters (152) Order - 令

The shell bone script of character Order is

On the top is a tongue who makes the order, the bottom is a person kneels down, waiting for an order.

Its bronze script is

Similar to the shell bone script.

Its big seal script is

The top is same as older scripts, but the bottom is changed, not like a person kneeling down. It is bottom of character 邑  (City), means Person. Maybe, at that time, the person who receives the order doesn't need to kneel down.

Its small seal script is

The top is same as the shell bone script, but the bottom changed a lot.

Its clerical script is

The bottom is simplified, it is no similarity to the old scripts. The knees became to a big dot.

The current standard printing script for it is

令

which is almost same as the clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Ling4.