Amazing Chinese Characters (640) Ocher - 赭

 The big seal script of character Ocher is

The left is character Crimson (Post 272), the right one is character -ist, -or, -er (Post 220). Crimson means a person was on fire, and the right one means fire. Therefore, the character means Ocher, the over burned color, or the Ocher pigment used in Chinese painting.

The small seal script of character Ocher is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Ocher is

Changed a lot, but still the Crimson is on the left, and the -ist, -or, -er is on the right.

The pinyin of the character is Zhe3.

Amazing Chinese Characters (639) Room - 屋

The big shell script of character Room is 

 The top 

is character Body (Post 423), the bottom is character To (Post 298). Body means people who go to a room. 

The small seal script of character Room is 

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Room is 

The top Body is similar to older script, the bottom To just pull all curves to straight lines.

The Pinyin of the character is Wu1.

There is another character Room - 室 （Post 290) , both are exchangeable. There is a subtle difference, 室 emphasizes the Inside of the Room, there may be many 室 under the same roof: bedrooms, bathrooms, classrooms. 屋 is more like a small house for relax and sleep, meaning close to House.

Amazing Chinese Characters (638) Embarrassed - 尬

 The big seal script of character Embarrassed is

The left is character Nine (Post 443)

which means that a person kneeling down, bending his back, extending his arms forward, to explore inside of small hole, or crack which is too small to squeeze in; or he is trapped in the small space, couldn't get out. 

The right part is character Scables, indicating the person is searching the surface of the small hole, or crack. 

The situation, and the posture of the person is embarrassed because he has to twist his body, hopeless. 

The small seal script of character Embarrassed is

The left is character Dog (Post 116), which is a mistake. It should be character Nine like the one below

Mr. Li Si, the creator of the small seal, made a simple mistake.

The right is character Boundary, which is right.

The clerical script of character Embarrassed is 

The character Nine is on right and bottom, and character Boundary is on right.

The Pinyin of the character is Ga4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (637) Fall Sleep - 寐

 The big seal script of character Fall Sleep is 

The uptown U is a house, the left under the ceiling is character Bed Board (Post 635), plus a 一 on top, become character Ill, but here is not ill, is lying down on bed. The right part under ceiling is character Not Yet (Post 338), which also means "Future". There is no person, but there is bed, the character Not Yet means some situation not sure, not clear, blurred. When people fall sleep, their minds go to dream where nothing is real, nothing is clear, similar to the uncertain future. 

Besides, the character means that people sleep in house, and on bed, not outside, not on chair, not on floor. It is very formal sleep.

The small seal script of character Fall Sleep is

Similar to the big seal script.

The clerical script of character Fall Sleep is

The top is Radical House, the bottom are characters Bed Board, and Not Yet. The 一 on top of Not Yet missing, most likely is to eliminate intentionally.

The Pinyin of the character is Mei4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (636) Scables - 疥

 The big seal script of character Scables is

The left is character Bed Board (Post 635) + the top short horizontal line means Ill or Disease. Ill people normally lays on bed with a headboard to prevent the patient falling down. the inside is character Boundary (Post 270). The scables is skin disease. Skin is a boundary of body. The character is Disease + Boundary.

The small seal script of character Scables is

Similar to big seal script, the big difference is the character Person under the 一 on the right top, but it is small seal script of character Person Post 37).

The clerical script of character Scables is

The top and left is the Radical Ill, the bottom 介 is character Boundary.

The Pinyin of the character is Jie4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (635) Bed Board - 爿

 The shell bone script of character Bed Board is

A vertical bed. If we turn it 90 degree,  it will be a normal simple bed. Why is it vertical? Because ancient people didn't have paper, they wrote characters on bamboo slips which are very narrow, difficult to draw bed horizontally. They are many other shell bone scripts are vertically drawn.

The big seal script of character Bed Board is

Similar to shell bone script, but more rounded, very like a vertical 兀.

The clerical script of character Bed Board is

Some similarity to older scripts.

The Pinyin of character Bed Board is Pan2.

The character is not used alone, but widely exist in the compound characters.

Amazing Chinese Characters (634) Border - 界

 The big seal script of character Border is

The left is character Field (Post 3), the right is character Boundary (Post 270). The boundary of field is Border dividing the field. 

The small seal script of character Border is

Similar to the big seal script.

The clerical script of character Border is

The top 田 is character Field, and the bottom 介 is character Boundary. This structure of the script is different from the older scripts which is that the Field is no the left, and the Boundary is on the right. 

The song typeface has both structures characters: 界，畍， they have the same meaning. But simplified song typeface abandoned the 畍.

The pinyin of the character is Jie4. 

Amazing Chinese Characters (633）Hat - 弁

 The bronze script of character Hat is

The middle is a hat, the sides are two hands holding the hat, or wearing the hat on head, or taking off the hat from the head. The hat means the hat in ancient time hat, not that today. The character has not used alone as hat for long time. The ancient time, not everyone had a hat, the person who had a hat was rich and high level in the society. In addition, the hat was very exquisite, and expensive, people took the hat carefully. 

The big seal script of character Hat is

The top is the hat, the bottom are two hands. 

The small seal script of character Hat is

The top is hat, the bottom are two hands.

The clerical script of character Hat

Not pictography anymore, but we can tell that the top is the hat, the bottom are two hands.

The Pinyin of the character is Bian4.

The character 弁 used most often right now is 马弁（horse - hat), not the hat wearing on horse head, but an orderly who severed for high ranked official, including taking care of his horse and hat. 

Amazing Chinese Characters (632) Hands -Together - 廾

 The big seal script of character Hands - Together is

Two grass seedling.

Let's compare it with big seal script of character Bamboo

Similar to the one above, but the sides are dropped down because bamboo leaves are drooping.

The small seal script of character Hands - Together is

Very similar to the man's hands in the picture.

There may be bent grass seedlings. 

Therefore, the character has two meanings: Grass, or Hands-Together.

The clerical script of character Hands - Together is

The two separated curves on the top become to a horizontal line, two vertical curves become one fall-left line and one vertical line, totally lost pictography for writing a little bit quicker.

The Pinyin of the character is Gong3.

Amazing Chinese Characters (631) Grass. - 卉

The big seal script of character Grass is

The three grass leaves.

The small seal script of character is 

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Grass is

The middle one becomes much shorter, the bottom two become connected as 廾, not like grass anymore. 

The Pinyin of the character is Hui4.

There is another character Grass - 草 (Post 49).

Big seal script of 草

The middle is character Morning (Post 266), the four corners are four grass. The character describes the picture the grass field in the sunrise time, the character 草 has a character Sun - 日 (Post 4), which is surrounded by grass, and in the same level of the grass. 

Normally, the character 草 is wild grass, the character 卉 is ornamental grass or plants, just like Ornamental flowers. This is why character 卉 has very neat and close three grass, 草 has scattered distributed grass.