This 'raid' character hides a dragon coiled under

Originally a 'clothing + right-sound' compound, 袖

Looks like 'grass + new' — but this 16-stroke cha

Though it looks like a plant growing over livestoc

This 'knee' character hides a breathing person —

This 'fishy' character hides a cosmic pun: its rig

This 'seven-stroke twin' isn’t just 'similar' —

Its top looks like ‘sheep’ — but it’s actually

This 'embroidery' character hides a botanical secr

This 5-stroke character began as a dot inside a ca

Born from ancient fields where grain stalks stood

This 'auspicious' character hides a sheep sacrific

Though it looks like a dog radical plus 'squeeze,'

This 'sacrifice' character hides an ox walking wes

Its top half looks like 黑 (black), but it’s not

This character fuses ‘fire’ and ‘resting breath

A fire-and-mystery combo: ancient scribes fused 'f

This 'deep and clear' character hides a literati s

This 'gushing' character hides a dripping-brush se

Its right side is 爻 — the ancient I Ching symbol

This 7-stroke character is a sonic river — its ‘

Though it looks like 'water + again', 泄 actually

This 'appliance' character began as a wooden war m

This six-stroke character looks like a sturdy tree

This 'dawn' character hides a legendary ruler (尧)

This 'warm' character hides in plain sight: its su

Looks like 'sun + axe chopping wood' — because tr

This character began as a drought glyph — cracked

This ‘revolving’ character hides a spinning-top

Its bronze-age pictograph showed a hand gripping a

Originally a hand ripping open a curtain — today

Though it contains 心 ('heart'), 悬 isn’t about e

Originally 'first standard under shelter' — now t

Though it means 'to follow,' 循 hides a spiral she

This character hides *two feet* (止×2) under its

Though it means 'bow string,' 弦's real magic lies

Though it looks like it contains 'snake' (巳), 巷

This 6-stroke character began as a Bronze Age imag

Born as 'mountains gripping' in ancient script, 峡

This 'crumb' character hides a moral punch: its an