This 'marry' character literally shows a woman mov

Originally a 'woman with an eyebrow' — a visual p

Originally a kneeling woman holding a broom — now

Though it looks like 'woman + wave,' 婆’s right s

The only Chinese verb meaning 'to take a wife' —

Originally a ritual dance performed by a woman to

This 'mother' character hides a hand — the 又 on

This 'power' character began as a halberd looming

This 'beauty' character doesn’t depict a face —

This character’s ‘reason’ radical (因) isn’t j

This ‘grandma’ character is visually a marriage

Originally a kneeling person — now a radical symb

This 'paternal aunt' character hides an ancient ph

Though it looks like ‘woman + square,’ 妨 isn’t

Born from a 'woman + little' pictograph, 妙 evolve

Born as a pictograph of a person lowering a looped

This six-stroke character began as ancient arms gr

Born as a kneeling person beside the setting sun,

This three-stroke character began as a pictograph

This 'long life' character hides a ritual scene: a

This 'pot' character began as a detailed Bronze Ag

This 'wall' character hides a 3,000-year-old ramme

This 'dust' character hides a double dose of 'smal

This 'dyke' character hides a Tang Dynasty name —

Born from dripping water and tree stumps, this 10-

Born as a Bronze Age earthen mound, this 11-stroke

This character began as a pictograph of soil heape

Born as a pictograph of a hand arresting a bound p

Born as a walled fief guarded by spears, 域 evolve

Born in ancient bronze foundries as a clay mold,

Born as 'sunrise over flat earth,' this 8-stroke c

Its 7 strokes form a perfect visual scale — a 3,0

This humble 3-stroke character — 土 — began as p

Originally a pictograph of a coiled rope inside a

Originally a ritual vessel’s perfect curve, 圆 ev

This character looks like a cage—but it’s really

Originally a walled ancient citadel — now the go-

This 17-stroke 'sneeze' character hides a phonetic

A mouth (口) shouting DOWN (下) — this six-stroke

A 20th-century invention with ancient logic: 口 ma