Amazing Chinese Characters (387) Season - 季

 The shell bone script of character Season is

The top is Rice Crop (Post 34), the bottom is Child (Post 21). But it means rice seed here. The character means that the life circle of the rice from the seed to the rice crop, which is one season in the view of ancient Chinese. 

The bronze script of the character is

Which is similar to shell bone script, except all lines are smoother. 

The big seal script of the character is

Which is similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of the character is

The top is 禾 -  Rice crop, the bottom is 子, same as the older scripts but all strokes are straight.

The song typeface of the character is

季

Same as the clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Ji4.