This 4-stroke 'area' character began as a Bronze A

Though it means 'spoon,' 匙 is almost never used a

This 3-stroke character began as a Bronze Age draw

This 7-stroke character began as 'severe strength'

Originally a fusion of 'resonant voice' (甬) and '

This 5-stroke character merges 'precision craft' (

This ‘theater’ character hides a knife — becaus

This 'remaining' character hides a knife — litera

Born from ancient currency inspection — a knife c

Born as a harvest knife slicing grain, 利 evolved

This 7-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

Born from ancient knife-carved bamboo slips, 列 is

This 6-stroke character began as a Bronze Age pict

A four-stroke knife-in-action character whose 'sev

This 2-stroke character began as a Bronze Age blad

Originally a hand gripping a ritual cauldron, 具 e

This 2-stroke character began as a Bronze Age foot

This 'exemption' character began as a detailed dra

Born as a pictograph of a hand subduing a captive,

This 6-stroke character began as a person crowned

This 4-stroke character began as a kneeling judge

Born as 'court entertainer,' 优 evolved into 'exce

This 'exhaustion' character evolved into Chinese’

Though it looks like a person holding one hand, 仅

Originally a pictograph of a person beating a drum

This 'proud' character began as a pictograph of a

This 'effect' character hides a hand holding a sti

This ‘instructor’ isn’t just any teacher — it

Originally meaning 'wooden puppet' — now the soul

Originally a pictograph of a roadside pavilion —

Looks like 'person + straight' — because in ancie

This character began as a drawing of shackled ankl

This character began as a Bronze Age sketch of a p

This 'person' radical character evolved from 'obed

This 'two' character drops the measure word, skips

This character began as a hand decorating ritual b

Originally a Bronze Age image of a person cradling

Originally a pictograph of a person crouching insi

Its ancient form shows two hands lifting a vessel

Born from 'arranging people in rows,' 例 evolved f