This 'resign' character began as a kneeling person

This character looks like ‘foot + ritual vessel’

This character looks like a foot + 'to gather' —

This character’s 12 strokes hide a millennia-old

This 'money' character hides a battle-axe atop cow

Its horn radical (角) reveals the truth: 触 isn’t

This 'cutting' character began as a tailor’s knif

This six-stroke character began as a wriggling wor

Originally meant 'scent' — neutral and even poeti

This 7-stroke character began as a wiggly pictogra

A ‘flesh’ radical + ‘sudden end’ symbol — thi

This 'wing' character hides a secret: its right si

Its right side 周 means 'surround' — a visual met

Born from unbroken silk thread and sprouting seeds

This 'rough' character hides rice grains in its bo

Born from ancient grain scales, this character doe

This fiery 8-stroke character began as 'roasting b

This character began as an ancient astronomical re

Born from an ancient scribe measuring water depth

This 'ice radical' character (冫) doesn’t mean co

Its right side looks like 'now' (今), but this cha

Originally a fortified moat on bronze inscriptions

Originally a bronze-age drawing of bound logs atop

Though it means 'village,' 村 was invented late in

Born as a sunrise ritual scene, 朝 fused time, dir

Born as a steaming ancestral rice pot, this charac

This 'grasp' character evolved from ancient battle

Originally a pictograph of a hand driving a tool *

Born from a hand arranging dried meat on a rack,

This 'color' character doesn’t depict pigment —

Its right side is 折 ('to break'), its left is 扌

This 'copy' character hides a secret: its right si

This 'hand-holding-up' character once depicted a r

This ‘ashamed’ character hides a heart being cho

This ‘worry’ character literally bears autumn’s

This 'thorough' character began as a pictograph of

This 'ruler' character abandoned measurement 1,200

This character began as a royal seal of favor — a

This 'dust' character hides a double dose of 'smal

This 7-stroke character began as a pictograph of a