This 'foot' character secretly wears two masks:

Originally a sprinting pictograph meaning 'to run'

This 'sell' character hides a phonetic secret: its

This 'visitor' character began as a kneeling ritua

This character began as a royal tribute shell unde

This 5-stroke character looks like a polite whispe

This 'subject' character hides an ancient tax-coll

Born 3,000 years ago as 'speech + ritual standard,

This 'complain' character hides a legal past: its

This 'egg' character hides an insect radical — be

This 'medicine' character began as a poetic name f

This character began as a drawing of a human face

This character began as a Bronze Age drawing of a

This character began as a pictograph of hanging me

This gentle-looking character began as a vivid ora

This 'give' character began as silk threads bindin

Though it looks like a simple 'shao', this charact

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This 7-stroke character — born from silk scraps a

Originally a Bronze Age symbol for 'silk dyed by s

This 'basket' character hides a bamboo basket *and

This 'brush' character began as a bamboo stalk cro

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This 'laugh' character hides bamboo — because anc

This ‘station’ character began as a ritual act o

This 'wear' character began as a pictograph of an

Despite its 'beast track' radical 禸, 离 has nothi

This 'ticket' character hides an altar — its bott

This 'know' character hides an arrow — ancient sc

This 'eyeball' character hides a secret: its 'blue

Originally a pictograph of a person standing whole

This 'hundred' doesn't mean 100 — it started as '

Originally a glowing rice sprout in oracle bone sc

This character began as a pictograph of a person l

This 5-stroke character began as a detailed oracle

This ‘class’ character began as a ritual image o

This 'play' character evolved from ancient jade-ha

This four-stroke character began as a vivid front-

This four-stroke character began as three wavy fla

Originally a bronze-age fish gliding through styli