A single character that means both 'imperial thron

A 7-stroke 'shell' whose top radical 士 is just a

This character began as two axes hacking at a corp

This character looks like 'death' + 'straight'—a

This 'calamity' character hides a skeleton (歹) an

This 4-stroke character began as a Bronze Age skel

Born as a pictograph of a foot at a forked road,

Born from a bronze-age ritual of holding sacred me

Its radical 欠 (yawning mouth) reveals the truth:

This 'fence' character hides a floral homophone —

A 15-stroke 'horizontal' character whose three top

A 'wood' radical describing a perfect curve — thi

This 'orange' character hides a mountain-climbing

Though it looks like 'prize' (奖), 桨 is all wood

This 'notice' character literally grew from a wood

This 'hammer' character once smashed ritual oxen i

Originally a bronze-age drawing of a roof beam —

Though it looks like a simple 'tree + zong' combo,

Its right side 昆 looks like 'insect' but was chos

Though it means 'cotton,' 棉 originally depicted k

This 'appliance' character began as a wooden war m

This character looks like a tree showing off its m

Born as a pictograph of a wooden beam, 梁 became t

Though it looks like a simple 'frame,' 框 is actua

This character began as a hand pressing a seedling

This 'trunk' character hides a legal twist: in cla

This character began as twin uprights holding up h

This ‘card’ isn’t cardboard — it’s a carved w