Amazing Chinese Characters (322) Show - 显（顯）

 The bronze script of character Show is

The top left is character Sun, the bottom left is character Silk, the right is character Meet - a big eye with a small body. The original meaning of the character is to put the silk under the sun to check carefully.

The big seal script of the character is

The top is Sun, the bottom is Silk, the person with big eye disappears, which is understandable because we Show the silk under the sun not the person with big eye who is the subject.

The small seal script of the character is 

The left is Sun + Silk, the right is character Page which is a human face originally with eyes (see post 257). It is a person who check the silk under the sun.

The clerical script of the character is

The left is Sun + Silk, and the right is character Page (頁）.

I can't find big song typeface for the traditional character image, so use the standard script instead. They are almost same.

The simplified song typeface for simplified character is

显

which is changed a lot. The biggest change is to eliminate the right part, just keep the left part: the top is Sun, the Bottom is the silk but using simplified character 业，which may look like silk (?), but the meaning is Industry. This is a bad simplified character.

Its Pinyin is Xian3. 

Amazing Chinese Characters (321) Ash - 灰

 The shell bone script of character Ash is

The bottom 

is Fire.

The top right is a hand which is holding a fire stick. The image shows that after fire, a person uses a fire stick to move something in the bottom of the fireplace: ash.

The big seal script of the character is 

the bottom is character Fire, the top-right is Hand, the fire stick is gone, which is not as good as the shell bone script because it is easy to think that people put his hand over the fire.

The small seal script of the character is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of the character is

The bottom is Fire, the top "One horizontal stroke + left falling stroke" means Hand here because the two bent lines of Hand in big or small script are straight now.

Its Pinyin is Hui1.

Amazing Chinese Characters (320) Print or Stamp - 印

 The shell bone script of character Print or Stamp is

The left top is a hand holding a man who is kneeling down prisoner. In the ancient time, the official forced the prisoner to be marked on the face by hot iron before he would be dispatched to remote area as a punishment.

The bronze script of the character is

The hand is over the man right now.

The small seal script of the character is

The hand is over the person who is twisted too much to be like a person kneeling down.

The clerical script of the character is

The hand is on the left, and the person is on the right but difficult to see any similarity to older scripts, and not like a person anymore.

The song typeface of the character is

印

Its Pinyin is Yin4.

The character means Print or Stamp, both verb or noun.

Amazing Chinese Characters (319) Seek - 觅（覓）

 The bronze script of character Seek is 

the upper left is a hand, the right is a person with a big eye. Dictionary of Pictography 《象形字典》explanation is that people use hand and eyes to seek something. I think that another possibility is exist: the hand opens the eye bigger to seek something.

The big seal script of the character is

The hand is over eye now, it is more like "open the eye with hand".

The small seal script of the character is

The bottom is character Meet, the top is not like a hand, and unclear what it is.

The clerical script of the character is

The top is Hand, the bottom is Meet.

The song typeface for traditional character is

覓

very similar to clerical script.

The song typeface for simplified character is

觅

The bottom 见 is simplified character Meet.

Its pinyin is Mi4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (318) Temple - 庙（廟）

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