Amazing Chinese Characters (275) Burnt - 焦

The shell bone of character Burnt is

The top is a tailed bird (Post 107), the bottom is fire. The bird is being grilled, which was the popular way to cook. So the original meaning of the character is Grill.

The bronze script of the character is

The top is a bird, the bottom is fire.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to bronze script.

There is another big seal script of the character

There are three tailed birds on the top, and fire on the bottom. People could toast or grill many birds at the same time.

The small seal script of the character is

Top is the tailed bird, the bottom is fire.

The clerical script of the character is

The top is tailed bird, the four dots on the bottom is Fire.

Let's see how the Fire become four dots.

The big seal script of character Fire

When people tried to write quickly, they simplified the strokes, so the above Fire become for separated dots because it is easy to write.

The song typeface of the character is

焦

Same as clerical script.

The pinyin for character 焦 is Jiao1.