Friday, April 2, 2021

Amazing Chinese Characters (357) Profit - 利

 The shell bone script of character Profit is


The left is character rice crop, the right is character Knife. Use knife to cut mature ear of rice is to get profit: the rice.

The bronze script of the character is


 Similar to the shell bone script except the two rice grain between the swords dropped from the ear of rice.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

The right knife has no rice grain right now,

The clerical script of the character is


The right knife becomes two vertical strokes.

The song typeface of the character is

Same as the clerical script.

The pinyin for the character is Li4.

利 could mean Interest, Benefit, or Favorable too. 

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