This six-stroke character began as a sprout pushin

This 'fanning' character hides a door radical — b

This character’s weapon radical 戈 hasn’t change

This 'guard against' character began as a pictogra

Its ancient form pictured someone turning back aga

Originally 'bone yielding' + 'heart' — this 10-st

Its right side 咸 originally meant 'all' — so 憾

This 8-stroke character began as a person kneeling

Born as a bronze-age ritual glyph meaning 'heaven-

This 'comfort' character hides an ancient military

Its top half is a broom — because ancient Chinese

This ‘ashamed’ character hides a heart being cho

Originally 'heart aligned with truth,' 慎 isn’t j

This character is a heart (忄) literally overrun b

Its ancient form wasn’t a frowning face — it was

This ‘worry’ character literally bears autumn’s

Though pronounced è, this 'evil' character hides

Originally a kneeling figure offering a sacred ves

Its ancient form shows two opposing feathers teari

Though it looks like 'a person humming over a hear

This 'quiet' character hides a heart — 悄 isn’t

This character began as a kneeling person offering

This 'hate' character doesn’t show teeth — it sh

This 'restore' character hides ashes (灰) inside a

This character’s heart radical hides a linguistic

This 'neglect' character hides a crossed-out 'do n

Though it means 'to read,' 念 has no mouth — just

Its ancient form shows a blade hovering over the h

This 'thorough' character began as a pictograph of

This character began as an oracle bone drawing of

This character looks like a person walking to a pl

Though defined as 'journey', 征 never means casual

Originally built from 'step' + 'compare', 彼 isn't

Though it means 'to record' today, 录 began as a b

This 'bend' character began as a bronze-age drawin

This bow-shaped character doesn’t mean 'strong' h

This 'weak' character began as two sagging bows—a

This six-stroke character — one of only 7 in Chin

Originally a pictograph of a crumbling roof — now

This 'mansion' character hides a phonetic surprise