Born as a wooden weighing beam in ancient China,

Looks like 'wood + dang' — but this character evo

Though it means 'to imitate,' 模 was born as a woo

Though it means ‘gun’, 枪’s wood radical reveal

This 'glory' character began as a pictograph of a

Though it means 'pepper,' 椒 originally depicted S

This 'chess' character hides a 2,300-year-old wood

This 'comb' character hides a ritual: in ancient C

Its name sounds like 'parting' — so gifting pears

This 'peach' character began as a bronze-age picto

This 'pit' character evolved from fruit stones to

Originally a bronze-age drawing of bound logs atop

One character, two pronunciations: jǔ in dusty di

This 'soft' character hides a warrior’s secret: i

Born as a marked tree in ancient bronze inscriptio

This 'support' character began as a Bronze Age sca

Born as an axe chopping wood, 析 evolved into Chin

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

This 'not yet' character began as a treetop — and

This four-stroke 'tree' is the radical behind 1,20

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

Though it looks like a moon character, 朗’s true

This 'substitute' character 替 began as a bronze-a

Born as a steaming ancestral rice pot, this charac

Originally a pictograph of sunlight filtering thro

This character started as a pictograph of the sun

This 'sun with wobbly rings' started as a cosmic h

Though it has the 'sun' radical, 智 isn't about li