Amazing Chinese Characters (179) Fork - 叉

The shell bone script for character Fork is

or

The middle of the top one is 

which is a hand. It is surrounded by many dots,  meaning that a hand inserts into many small stuffs, such as rice. 

The bottom one has only two dots, but same meaning.

The big seal script for this character is

a hand with one dot.

Its small seal script is

similar to big seal script.

All above are like a Fork.

Its clerical script is

the hand becomes

which is not like a hand, even though if you look it carefully, you still can see a little bit similarity. The curves become less curve or straight lines.

The current standard printing script is

叉

Its Pinyin is Cha1.

I need to point out that 叉 also means "Cross" or "X".