Amazing Chinese Characters (380) Name - 名

 The shell bone script of character Name is

The left is character Mouth (Post 16), and the right is character Evening (Post 52), which means that call somebody in the evening. 《象形字典》 - The Dictionary of Pictography explains "Parents call children to come home in the evening". Here "call" means calling names of children.

I agree but they may not only call children, may call other family members too.

The bronze script of the character is

The top is Evening, the bottom is Mouth.

There is another bronze script for the character.

The top is Moon, the bottom is Mouth. Acutually, the character Evening is moon too but not very bright because it is moon of early evening. The Moon is late evening or around midnight, when it is very bright. The above one is to call family member in late evening.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to the first bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

Similarly, the top is Evening, the bottom is Mouth.

The clerical script of the character is

Similar to the older scripts.

The song typeface of the character is

名

Very similar to clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Ming1.