Amazing Chinese Characters (180) Stomach - 胃

The shell bone script of character Stomach is

a bag with some rice or food inside, which is pictograph character.

The bronze script of the character is

the top is the bag with food as the shell bone script, the bottom one is character 月, which means "Flesh" here but is Moon if used as a single character.

The character means a flesh bag or a bag inside a body, which is stomach.

The big seal script of the character is

very similar to its bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

the bag is rectange, not round; the bottom is more symmetrical.

The clerical script of the character is

no rice dots inside of the bag, strokes are straight lines except one on the bottom left.

The current standard printing script is

胃

All are straight lines, you can't imagine what its shell bone or big seal scripts look like from it.

Its Pinyin is Wei4.