悦 | 悅

Today we will study a new character 悦, which is composed of 忄 and 兑. 悅 is not strictly its traditional version, but kind of an variant of 悦.

We have already known that when heart （心）is used as a Chinese radical, it will be written as忄. And 兌 is what we just learnt in our previous post: "兄 is dividing among his clans". So 忄 plus 兌 | 兑 is to represent the meaning what (people) feel in their heart when they get their share they deserved: happy and gladness. for example: 愉悦.

悦 | 悅 can also be used as verb to mean:  to make (somebody) happy or glad. for example: 女为悦己者容.

Before we continue to enjoy the Chinese calligraphy, let us see whether there is any more clues we can get from its ancient scripts:

evolution history of 悦

Unfortunately there is no Oracle script found for 悦, but I assume it should be the same as 兑. 

And as we can see from the character discovered from War State period that it was to write 心 below 兑, instead of left to 兑. And Seal Script quickly changed to put 心 at left hand side.

That is all, now it is time to enjoy our Chinese calligraphy with 悦 inside:

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