The Big Seal Script for Black (乌）
It looks very much like a bird, but the pupil is not visible because the black eye does not stand out against the background of black feathers.
Comparison with the Big Seal Script for character Bird
It contains the pupil.
The Small Seal Script for Black (乌）
It is very similar to the Small Seal Script for character Bird, but the horizontal line indicating the pupil is missing. This represents the integration of black feathers and black eyes, making it look uniformly black without distinction.
Comparison with the Small Seal Script for character Bird
It contains a horizontal line indicating the eye.
The Clerical Script for character Black（乌）
It is like the Small Seal Script, resembling the Clerical Script for Niǎo, but the horizontal line indicating the pupil has disappeared, making it entirely black. Wū means black, represented by a black bird.
Comparison with the Clerical Script for character Bird
It contains a horizontal line.
The Simplified Song Typeface for character Black (乌）
No feathers, no claws, it is a poor simplification.
Comparison with the Simplified Character for character Bird
It contains a dot indicating the eye.
Now let's look at the character for character Black （黑）.
The Bronze Script for character Black (黑）
The top part represents a person's face with black dots on it. The lower part is the person's body with four dots beside it. This symbolizes a person in a charcoal kiln, whose face and body are covered with soot. This method is used to represent black.
The Big Seal Script for character Black (黑）
Similar to the Bronze Script.
The Small Seal Script for character Black (黑）
The top still represents a face, but with a vertical line in the middle and short vertical lines on either side indicating black dots. Since the Small Seal Script does not use dots, all dots are represented by short vertical or horizontal lines. The bottom part consists of two "fire" or "flame" characters. This may be a miswriting of the Big Seal Script, as the bottom part of the Big Seal Script resembles the "flame" character. However, it might not be a mistake, but rather a use of "flame" to indicate charcoal burning or a kiln.
The Clerical Script for character Black (黑）
The small black dots reappear at the top. The first "fire" character at the bottom is written as "土" (earth), probably for writing speed. The second "fire" character is written as four dots. In most cases, four dots represent fire, for example:焦 (burn), 蒸 (steam), 煮 (boil), 熏 (smoke), and so on.
黑 means black, and 乌 also means black, so what is the difference between 乌 and 黑 generally describes movable objects (wū comes from bird, which is characterized by movement): 乌鸦 (crow), 乌鸡 (black chicken), 乌云 (dark cloud), 乌龟 (turtle), 乌龙 (black dragon), 乌龙马 (black horse), most of which are animals. 黑 covers all black objects: 黑云 (black cloud), 黑脸 (black face), 黑衣 (black clothes), 黑夜 (black night), 黑木耳 (black fungus), and so on, most of which are static.
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