Born as a person holding a sacred jade disc and ga

This 'low' character began as a person bowing unde

Though it looks like 'ancient person,' 估 is all a

Though it means 'meals', 伙 began as a pictograph

This 6-stroke character looks like a person dividi

This six-stroke character began as a person carryi

This six-stroke character hides a royal courier —

Originally a ritual act of handing over tribute,

Looks like 'person + child,' but functions like 'd

This 4-stroke character hides a 3,000-year-old ima

Originally two crossed legs bowing face-to-face,

Born as a Bronze Age temple floorplan, 亚 morphed

This four-stroke character began as twin interlock

This 'cloud' character was hijacked 3,000 years ag

Its ancient form showed tangled ropes under a hand

This 'ride' character hides a 3,000-year-old chari

This six-stroke character was invented in the 1920

This six-stroke character was invented in the 1920

This 4-stroke character began as a pictograph of w

This six-stroke character looks like two banners f

This 'lose' character began as a hand dropping a b

This 'will' character began as a ritual offering

This four-stroke 'inside' character hides a 3,000-

This 'thread' character once depicted hand-twisted

Originally a pictograph of a foot stepping toward

Born from a flawless jade tablet handed into the p

This 'society' character began as a Bronze Age alt

Born from ancient farmland geometry, this 5-stroke

This ‘gě’ character looks like a lid sealing a

Originally a philosophical term for 'innate moral

Originally a pictograph of an official wielding au

This 'measure' character began as a Bronze Age gra

This 'passing' character began as a bronze-age sur

Originally picturing hands holding a banner on a h

Originally footprints vanishing into distance, thi

Originally a brutal oracle-bone image of a blinded