This character looks like an ear listening to a dr

Born as a rice kernel with a dot, it evolved into

This 'cage' character hides a dragon — not mythic

Its name literally means 'sickness that stays' —

This 'hunting' character hides a dog radical and a

Though it looks like 'good wolf' (良), 狼 is anyth

This 'pen' character for cattle evolved into the g

Born as a pictograph of fire in a sheltered chambe

Born from 'water' and 'thoughtful containment,' 滤

Its right side is 监 (supervision), but the water

This character looks like 'water staying' (氵+留),

Its right side is 'forest' — because 淋 doesn’t

This 'fence' character hides a floral homophone —

Born as a pictograph of a wooden beam, 梁 became t

This character’s right side 京 once meant 'watcht

Though it looks like 'dragon' + 'hand,' 拢 isn’t

This 'fishing-up' character evolved from ancient w

This 'hug' character began as a pictograph of coil

Originally a hawk snatching prey in bronze script,

This 'distracted' character hides a secret: its ri

Born from aristocratic mansions, this character st

Its 13 strokes encode ancient political philosophy

This 'shoe' character evolved from an oracle bone

Though it looks like 'two bells over a corpse,' 屡

Though it has the 'woman' radical, 婪 isn’t about

A dragon-shaped ridge of earth — where ancient ag

Looks like 'mouth + knife' — but it's actually 'm

This mouth-radical character doesn’t mean 'wind'

This 'cheer particle' looks like a mouth pulling a

Though it looks like a mouth guarding a 'W', 吝 is

This six-stroke character hides a bronze-age visio

This ‘companion’ character hides two mouths stac

This 'actor' character literally means 'a person w

This 5-stroke character began as a detailed oracle

Born from a Bronze Age ‘person + dog’ glyph, 类

Originally a bronze-age sketch of a collar framing

Born as 'divine rain descending,' 灵 evolved from

This character began as ancient drummers pounding

This character doesn’t mean 'six' — that’s a wi

This 'chain' character hides a bronze-age merger: