Sunday, December 16, 2018

Amazing Chinese characters (216) String - 串

The bronze script for character String is

which is a string of beads


or a string of meat balls


The big seal script for this character is
very similar to the bronze script.

It is like sugar-coated haws, a famous food in north China.


The stuff may not always ball-alike, could be other shape. The following is a string of old copper coins, which was used as money in China 70+ years ago.


The small seal script for the character is
very similar too.

The clerical script for the character is
Similar to old script except the round circles become squares.

The song typeface of character String is

Same as the clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Chuan4.

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