This 7-stroke character began as a detailed oracle

This ‘near’ isn’t passive — its seven strokes

This 'foot' character secretly wears two masks:

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

This ‘teach’ character contains a child, a mouth

Born as 'a person presenting speech to authority,'

Originally a pictograph of a sentry standing guard

Originally a sun shining *through* a doorway — no

This character began as a bird flying forward — n

Originally a picture of warp threads on a loom —

Originally a pictograph of 'approaching a vessel',

This 'see'-based character doesn’t mean 'look' —

This 4-stroke character began as a kneeling person

This ‘wood-cross’ character began as a prison st

Originally combining 'woman' and 'seniority', 姐 i

Born 3,200 years ago as a mouth beside coiled rope

This two-stroke character began as a pictograph of

This 'now' began as a kneeling person — a 3,000-y

Originally a towering watchtower etched on oracle

Originally a coiling serpent glyph, 九 evolved int

Originally a loom's shuttle — now powers everythi

This 'home' character hides a pig under its roof—