了, in Small Oracle Script, is like a baby wrapped in a blanket, with only the head visible. There are just several characters formed by 了, among which 辽 and 疗 are the most common characters formed by 了. Continue reading “了 a baby wrapped in a blanket”
Category: People
人 亻大 子 儿 女 夫 长 文 久 母 老 每 介 屰 考 孝 允 歹 去 卩 勹 尸 包 克 巨 夏 鬼 畏 免 㐬 身 異 A person standing up A person receiving offerings on behalf of the dead A man stretching out four limbs A baby wrapped in swaddling clothes A baby with a soft fontanel A mother A woman on her knees A bowing person with arms bent A man with tattoos on his back A person accepting moxibustion Residual bone of a person A person leaving from a hole A kneeling person A man wearing amor A man nodding his approval An adult male A man with long hair An inverted person An old man with a walking stick A youngster supporting or carrying an old person A demon An old person A man in hat A newborn baby A man wearing a mask Fetus A person shouldering things A man with a rule in hand A human figure representing a great man A ghost
包 a fetus in the fetal membranes
包, cognate of 胞, originally meant a fetus in the embryonic membranes, a meaning later replaced by 胞. It serves as phonetic component to form characters.
Component 克 a person shouldering things
克, a pictographic character of a person shouldering things, serves as phonetic as well as semantic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 克 a person shouldering things”
巨 a man with a rule/square in hand
巨, a pictographic character of a man with a rule/square in hand, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “巨 a man with a rule/square in hand”
Component 夏 a human figure representing a great man
夏, a compound ideographic character of originally a human figure representing a “great” man, serves as phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 夏 a human figure representing a great man”