兔
February 12, 2023 Leave a comment
This year is Rabbit year of Chinese New Year, which in Chinese character is 兔.
Let us study this Pictogram character to understand how it was created and evolved into current way of writing:
From it Oracle script , we can tell that as a Pictogram, is a simpler drawing of , with emphasizing a few unique features of a rabbit – long ears, harelip and short tail.
The short tail was slowly simplified into a in our Regular script – 兔.
兔 means Rabbit, Bunny, Hare or any Rabbit-alike creatures. for example 小白兔.
That is all for 兔, here I wish everyone a Healthy and Prosperous Chinese New Year of Rabbit in 2023!