This 'ring' character began as a sacred jade disk

That little 'hé' sound hides a 3,000-year-old wat

Its ancient form pictured two jade discs traded by

Born as a pictograph of an armed city-state, 或 ev

Ancient Chinese saw harm as a snake slithering und

This character literally means 'marriage at dusk'

Though it means 'bad', 坏 originally pictured crum

This 5-stroke particle looks like a sigh — and fu

Born as two mirrored people—one flipped upside-do

This character began as a soot-covered person knee

Originally a Bronze Age symbol for 'silk dyed by s

This four-stroke character began as three wavy fla

Though it looks like a child wearing a pig-mask (

This 'still' character hides a walking person circ

Though it means 'dialect', 话's ancient core is 's

This 5-stroke mouth-with-a-scream-stroke was carve

This ‘Han’ character began as a river’s name —

This 6-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

This 'very' began as a Bronze Age glyph meaning 'h

Ancient scribes drew a whirlpool — now this 6-str

This 'drink' character hides a shout: same glyph p

This 'wait' character began as a servant standing

Born 3,000 years ago as a mother and child — now

Originally a kneeling queen symbolizing sovereignt

Originally a bronze-age scene of people debating u

Originally a bronze-age image of mouths chanting i