This year is Rabbit year of Chinese New Year, which in Chinese character is 兔.
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| a typical image used for Chinese Rabbit Year |
Let us study this Pictogram character to understand how it was created and evolved into current way of writing:
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| evolution history of 兔 |
From it Oracle script 
, we can tell that as a Pictogram, is a simpler drawing of 
, with emphasizing a few unique features of a rabbit - long ears, harelip and short tail.
The short tail was slowly simplified into a 
in our Regular script - 兔.
兔 means Rabbit, Bunny, Hare or any Rabbit-alike creatures. for example 小白兔.
That is all for 兔, here I wish everyone a Healthy and Prosperous Chinese New Year of Rabbit in 2023!
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| 兔年大吉 |
