Amazing Chinese Characters (364) Seal - 封

 The shell bone script of character Seal is

which is a sapling ready for planting. 

There is another shell bone script 

The left is a sapling, and the right is a hand. A person is planting a sapling.

In the ancient time, people plant trees to delimit borders, the area sealed by rows of trees was owned by someone, or some tribal.

The bronze script of the character is

Which is similar to the second shell bone script above: a sapling on left, and a hand on the right. The dot is soil.

The big seal script of the character is

Which is similar to older scripts.

The small seal script of the character is

The left is changed a little bit, but still similar to old scripts. We should pay attention to the top, the curve left is not meeting to the right curve in the middle, they are staggered a little bit. which is different from 

Which is Jade Tablet (Post 361).

The clerical script of the character is

The left is same as character Jade Tablet, not the original sapling with soil any more. People didn't pay attention to the little stagger in small seal script, just made the curves to one straight horizontal line, which changed the meaning of the character from planting sapling to holding a jade tablet.

The song typeface of the character is

封

Same as clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Feng1.