Depicts a rope with knots at both ends. Based on the original meaning "tip, extremity", now written as 終. The meaning later shifted to "winter" (the final season of the year).

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

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