Saturday, May 29, 2021

Amazing Chinese Characters (407) Youngest - 幺

 The shell bone script of character Youngest is

Which is a tiny silk or thread, same as shell bone script of character Mysterious (Post 406).

The bronze script of the character is


Same as the shell bone script. 

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of the character is
which changed big, circles become opening triangles.

The song typeface of the character is
Similar to clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Yao1.

 幺 original means "Tiny silk or thread", changed to Youngest, which is still used in some area in China, normally the youngest child. Overall it  is not a popular character right now, however it is popular as a part of characters, such as 玄 - Mysterious (Post 406), 幻 - Fantasy (Post 343), 孙 - Grandson (Post 243). It is important to understand its meaning. 

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