This 'give' character began as silk threads bindin

Though it looks like a simple 'shao', this charact

Originally a silk-winding pictograph, 累 visually

This 7-stroke character — born from silk scraps a

Originally a Bronze Age symbol for 'silk dyed by s

This 'basket' character hides a bamboo basket *and

This 'brush' character began as a bamboo stalk cro

Born from bamboo exam slips and brotherly birth or

This 'laugh' character hides bamboo — because anc

This ‘station’ character began as a ritual act o

This 'wear' character began as a pictograph of an

Despite its 'beast track' radical 禸, 离 has nothi

This 'ticket' character hides an altar — its bott

This 'know' character hides an arrow — ancient sc

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

Originally a pictograph of a person standing whole

This 'hundred' doesn't mean 100 — it started as '

Originally a glowing rice sprout in oracle bone sc

This character began as a pictograph of a person l

This 5-stroke character began as a detailed oracle

This ‘class’ character began as a ritual image o

This 'play' character evolved from ancient jade-ha

This four-stroke character began as a vivid front-

This four-stroke character began as three wavy fla

Originally a bronze-age fish gliding through styli

This 'wash' character began as a Bronze Age drawin

This 'swimming' character hides a secret: its righ

Born in 1868 to translate 'steam engine,' this cha

This 'ball' character hides jade — its 王 radical

Originally two people standing side-by-side to mea

This 'each' character hides a crowned mother — an

Originally two facing feet in oracle bone script,

This 'song' character hides a yawning mouth (欠)

Born from ancient military camps and breath, this

This 5-stroke character began as a sacred drum —

Originally a pictograph of a tree branch, 条 becam

Though it means 'full moon' today, 望 began as a p

Originally a crowned ruler standing on a dais (曰)

This ‘clear’ character hides a sky-blue secret:

This character literally shows the sun stepping as