Friday, June 4, 2021

Amazing Chinese Characters (411) Tell - 告

 The shell bone script of character Tell is


The top is the head of Ox - 牛 (Post 120), the bottom is character Mouth - 口(Post 16). 《象形字典》explains the meaning of the character is sacrifice of killing cattle for peace and happiness. It is the Mouth which tells the heaven or god what people want.

However, some people believe that the character original meaning is cattle shout to tell something, which is reasonable from pictography of the character but not very good for meaning of Tell. 

The bronze script of the character is


The top is character Ox, and the bottom is still Mouth.

The big seal script of the character 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 the top half of character Ox
Similar to shell bone script in the structure.

The bottom is character Mouth.

The song typeface of the character is

Same as the clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Gao4.


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