Its 13 strokes mimic the exact motions of knotting

This 7-stroke character hides a Bronze Age loom di

Originally 'rice divided into finest particles,'

This 'foreign' character literally means 'observin

Born from a dog lunging past its boundary, this 5-

Originally a bronze-age boat held aloft by water a

This 8-stroke character hides a Warring States-era

Its seal-script origin shows a hand applying somet

Its ancient form shows a hand calming a kneeling p

This character visually fuses 'heart' and 'vigorou

This six-stroke character hides a maritime revolut

Though it means 'peak', 峰’s right side is 丰 (f

This 'offer' character began as a hand raising a r

This 7-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

Originally a bronze-age image of a knife slicing a

Born as a bronze vessel pictograph, this 3-stroke

Its oracle bone roots show a person deliberately l

This 'capture' character hides a baby in its right

Born as 'a man swinging an axe' in oracle bone scr

This 'leaning over' character began as a kneeling

This six-stroke character began as a Bronze Age wa

Born as 'a hand turning while walking backward,'

Born as chariot braces in bronze-age war carts, 辅

Born from 'speech + wind,' this 6-stroke character

This six-stroke character began as a bronze-age gl

This 'bee' character secretly climbs a mountain —

This 'decay' character hides a Bronze Age horror s

Its top radical 罒 isn’t a net for fish — it’s

Its 17 strokes literally weave together silk threa

This 'numerous' character began as a picture of si

Born as a bronze-casting mold on ancient bronzes,

Same sound as ‘wind’ — because ancient doctors

Born as 'overflowing water', 泛 evolved from flood

This 'miasma' character evolved from ancient warni

Born as a bronze-age image of a hand steadying a p

Originally a pictograph of a crumbling roof — now

Originally a Bronze Age tally-keeping courtyard un

Born as 'cloth width' in bronze inscriptions, 幅 e

Originally a kneeling woman holding a broom — now

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