Saturday, December 22, 2018

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (40) It is Santa time! - 圣诞老人来了!


The characters in the artwork

 Mountain in shell bone script
Moon in shell bone script
Deer in shell bone script
Snow in standard script

The top

is character Rain or Raining.

The bottom
 is snowflake, which is not used independently. The combination of the two parts form character Snow, implying that snow may be snowing with raining.





Home - 家

家 (jiā, "home/family") = Roof + Pig The component   宝盖   (the "roof" radical) represents a pigsty or shelter, while   豕 ...