Rabbit is a first-class Chinese character in the General Standard of Chinese. This word was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Its ancient shape is like rabbit, and its original meaning is rabbit, a rabbit family animal. In ancient times, the part of the car connecting the floor and the axle looked like a lying rabbit, so it was called rabbit for short.
Legend has it that there is a white rabbit in the moon, so "rabbit" can be synonymous with the moon. Mercury, one of the eight planets, was called Chen Xing in ancient times, also known as Rabbit Star, which is called Rabbit in the province. The word "rabbit" in this sense is pronounced chān n n.
The evolution process of rabbit role is:
Rabbits are pictographic. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it looks like a sitting rabbit, with its head facing upwards (some of which highlight the rabbit's lips), long ears drooping, front and rear legs, and short tail bending, which basically shows the appearance characteristics of rabbits such as rabbit's lips, short tail, long ears and jumping.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the glyph gradually became linear, the abdomen of the front and rear legs changed from left to down, and the short tail gradually separated from the rabbit body and became a dot. From the font, you can hardly see the shape of a rabbit. The inscriptions on bronzes are similar to those of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and the seal script tends to be standardized. After the official reform, the word "rabbit" was formed.