Origin:
Ideographic Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "Horse" looks like the profile of a horse. It has four legs, a head and a tail, and the mane on the head and neck is its characteristic.
Bronze inscriptions appeared one after another in the Zhou Dynasty. Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions's drawings, the strokes are reduced, but the characteristics of big eyes, trimmed tail and long mane are basically retained, and the meaning of the shape is still known. In Qi Shu of the Warring States Period, the word "horse" was horse-shaped, or the horse's head was omitted and replaced with heavy words or provincial words.
Extended data:
The ancient glyph of a horse is like the profile of a horse, all with feet and tail. The original meaning refers to this animal. Later, it was borrowed as a big one. Horses are also used as surnames.
The horse is an important symbol. There are two main types of words with "horse" as the signifier: one is related to the name and characteristics of horses, such as jun, colt and horse; In ancient times, cars were drawn by horses, so many words for driving and running came from "horses", such as: controlling, galloping and running.
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