Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (6) Rain Umbrella - 雨伞

Chinese character for Rain is 雨 (Song script or printing script)

The Big Seal script (more than 3000 years old script)


It has 4 drops, like raining. The ancient Chinese used the pictography for "Rain".

The character for Umbrella is 伞 (Song script or printing script) or 傘 (traditional Chinese).



No old script characters found. The character is very like an umbrella. 

So 雨伞 means "rain umbrella". It is very pictography. 

I modified it as following,



Put the Rain over the Umbrella, add extra drops, make it more picture alike and dynamic. It is a beautiful poetic picture now.


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