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Kanji Fun Talk: E
"E" (wu4), which is a hieroglyph.
The "E" character of the oracle bone is written in many different ways, the first one is like a large axe with a long handle, the blade is to the right, it is crescent-shaped, there is a long wooden handle like "Go", the upper part has a "top hook", and the lower part has a short horizontal, indicating the foot fork.
The "axe" of the second model is semi-circular, with a circular "back" facing the long wooden handle and a straight edge to the right. The third is a large axe with a blade to the left on a long handle, and this "axe" is represented by an arc.
The fourth is to press a large "axe" on a weapon similar to the "Go", the blade is facing right, the long handle is bent, the upper top hook becomes like a fork, and the lower foot fork becomes an oblique painting.
During the Yin Shang Period, the two golden characters "E" are the real images of the weapon "E", and the entire glyph of the "E" character in the middle of the Zhou Dynasty is shortened, resembling the mirror image of the fourth paragraph of the oracle bone. During the Warring States period, the "E" character of the Golden Text was basically linearized, and it was no longer possible to see the shape of a large "axe".
The small seal inherits the glyph of the Jin script in the middle of the Zhou Dynasty. After the change, it is written as "E".
The original meaning of "E" is a weapon, a large axe. The earliest derived from the stone axe used by the ancestors, the weapon "E" is a reproduction of the stone axe. The "E" weapon was replaced by other weapons with stronger combat performance later.
The character "E" was borrowed as the fifth digit of "Tiangan" as early as the Yin Shang period, and was also often used as a pronoun for the ordinal "fifth".
The "E" tribe is a "small sect" in ancient times, and one of the women of the tribe is the empress concubine of the Shang King Wuding (female good ranked behind), and his son Wen Ding, the Shang King, cast an 875-kilogram "Simu Peng" Ding to sacrifice his mother, thinking that he was filial piety. It is now the treasure of the town hall of the China History Museum.