Amazing Chinese Characters (393) Stone - 石

 The shell bone script of character Stone is

It is a stone cliff.

or 

There are cliff and stone, which means that the stone is from the cliff, either it drops itself or men quarry it. The 口 here is not mouth but stone.

The bronze script of the character is

Similar to the shell scripts above, except the skew line disappeared.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to bronze script.

The small script of the character is

Similar to the older scripts.

The clerical script of the character is

The 口 is still not much change, but the cliff becomes two strokes from one smooth continuous turning line.

The song typeface of the character is

石

Almost same as clerical script.

Its pinyin is Shi1.