Friday, March 19, 2021

Amazing Chinese Characters (351) Talent - 才

The shell bone script of character Talent is


A pillar of the house. If a person has talent, he has ability of leadership to support a community same as a pillar could support the house.

The bronze script of the character is


similar to shell bone script.

The big seal script of the character is


similar to the older scripts.

The small seal script of the character is


The lower flat line (not exactly horizontal) replaced the Y shape beams, I don't know the reason. 

The clerical script of the character is

The left falling stroke is just in the one side, which is unbalanced support. Why? I think the reason is because if it had balanced support, it would be 

Which is character Wood. So it has to be different from 木,ancient Chinese chose to get only one side falling stroke.

The song typeface of the character is

Similar to clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Cai2.

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