This 'unauthorized excellence' character hides a h

Its right side looks like 'feel' (感), but 撼 does

Born as a bronze-age hunter tackling a bird, 扑 st

Its ancient form shows a hand calming a kneeling p

Born from plucking ancient zither strings, this 8-

This 15-stroke 'removal' character hides a Warring

This 'scratch' character evolved from ancient ideo

This 'let-go' character hides a ritual origin: anc

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,