Born from ancient bronze inscriptions of kneeling

This character looks like a tree beside 'harshness

Born as a kneeling person recoiling over a heart,

This character began as a pictograph of a person k

Born as a pictograph of a hand subduing a captive,

This 'pants' character started as battlefield gear

This 'chopstick' character was born from superstit

Born as a pictograph of a wind-swept cave, 空 evol

This 'thirsty' character hides a paradox: its wate

This character started as two mouths wailing over

This 'mouth' has no bottom stroke — because in Ch

This 5-stroke character didn’t exist in ancient d

This 'quarter-hour' character began as a knife car

This 'subject' character hides an ancient tax-coll

This ‘check’ character began as an elder wieldin

This 'fast' character has a heart radical — provi

This character was invented in the 1800s solely to

Originally a ritual staff in a mouth — now the mo

This 'look' character began as a hand shading an e

Originally a person under a roof with a ritual sta

Born as a pictograph of a wedge-cut plot of earth,

This four-stroke character began as a pictograph o