Xin (pinyin: xρn) is a common Chinese character, which first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The ancient glyph of "heart" is like the heart of a person, bird or beast, and its original meaning is heart. The ancients thought that the heart was the organ of thinking, so they called thoughts and feelings "heart".
It also extends from thinking organs to thoughts, thoughts, concepts, feelings, temperament and so on. , but also extended to thinking and planning. The heart is in the center of the human body, so "heart" has the meaning of center, center and middle.
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The "heart" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the outline of the human or animal heart, and there are two simple diagonal lines on the pericardium to represent the heart texture and blood vessels and veins. By the end of the bronze inscription, the heart shape began to mutate, the myocardial texture had been omitted, and a middle point was added to represent the blood in the heart. After that, the physical gap gradually increased.
Xiao Zhuan inherited the form of bronze inscriptions and made mistakes, while Li changed his mind. In the vertical heart and modern regular script, the appearance of "heart" is completely invisible. ?
When the "heart" is radical, the shape will change. The left and right structures of the words "ladle" such as hate, sorrow and bosom are written. In the second half of the word, there is the word "heart", which is like thinking. Some write "?" Such as politeness, admiration and embarrassment.