This ‘garden’ character began as a pictograph of

Born 2,300 years ago as a ‘mouth that is’ (口+是

This 'beer' character was invented in the 1870s —

This 10-stroke 'mouth + sound' character carries z

This character started as two mouths wailing over

Originally a walled settlement glyph, 周 evolved t

Originally a Bronze Age house with a window pointi

This 5-stroke character began as a hand writing in

This five-stroke 'only' character began as an anci

Originally a pictograph of a knotted rope under a

This 'mouth' has no bottom stroke — because in Ch

This 'uncle' character began as a hand harvesting

This two-stroke 'again' began as a full pictograph

This 'participation' character began as an ancient

This 5-stroke character didn’t exist in ancient d

This 'half' character began as a carved line split

Born as a pictograph of a fetus in the womb, this

This 'exert' character hides a slave (奴) under a

Born from ancient sword-forging on mountain ridges

This 'quarter-hour' character began as a knife car

This 'brush' character evolved from a bronze-age s

This 'scrape' character once depicted a hand gripp

This 6-stroke character began as wavy oracle bone

This 'winter' character began as a pictograph of a

This character has no bottom stroke — because wha

Its oracle bone form showed hands lifting a sacred

This four-stroke character began as a giant crowne

This character began as a ritual statue — now it