This 'support' character hides a battle scene: its

This 'fishing-up' character evolved from ancient w

That sharp left-flicking stroke isn't calligraphy

Its oracle bone form shows a hand clutching a sacr

Its hand radical + 'towering mountain' phonetic vi

This 'hug' character began as a pictograph of coil

This 'press' character hides a wood-and-constricti

Though it means 'to put up,' 搭 evolved from ancie

Its 10 strokes visually reenact a pestle striking

This 12-stroke character hides ancient agrarian wi

This 'fight' character began as a hand grabbing a

Originally a rope-and-hand pictograph for 'pulling

Originally picturing hands prying apart ancient co

This character looks like 'presenting music' (奏)

This 12-stroke character hides a Daoist secret: it

Though it looks like 'east' (东) on the right, 拣

This 12-stroke character is literally two hands te

Its right side 奄 once depicted a person crushed u

This 'explore' character began as a hand reaching

Originally a hawk snatching prey in bronze script,

This 'dig' character doesn’t show a shovel—it sh

This character’s 11 strokes visually reenact thum

This character began as a hand plunging into a cla

Originally a hand ripping open a curtain — today

This 11-stroke character hides a ritual: every tim

Born as a hand chasing prey in ancient scripts, 捕

Originally meaning 'to shape clay with fingers,'

This 'hand + little' character captures China’s g

This 'ward off' character hides a warrior’s grip

Though it looks like 'hand + foot,' 捉 evolved fro

This ‘bunch’ character is actually a rope-tighte

This 'pull' character began as a hand gripping a r

Its right side isn’t ‘sun’ (日) — it’s ‘past

A deceptively simple 9-stroke character whose hand

Born from a hand guiding a bending figure, this 10

This character began as a hand plunging into a cav

This 9-stroke character hides a 2,300-year-old phy

Its seal-script origin shows a commander's banner

This 'awkward' character is actually ancient perfo

Its right side 句 means 'sentence' — so 拘 litera