The Chinese characters 正 meaning is straight; upright; correct; exact.
The Chinese character: 正 shows a foot with a straight line above it. It signifies arrival and stopping(止) at the line or proper limit (一) without going astray. It is also an ideogram of a foot walking in a straight line. Therefore, the extended meanings: straight, [...]

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The Chinese characters 步 meaning is step, pace.
This Chinese character for “step” or “pace” is an ideogram of a right foot and a left foot, one following the other in close succession, graphically conveying the idea of walking or taking steps. Such steps, however, could be in the wrong direction; the picture shows a good [...]

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The Chinese characters 足 meaning is foot.
The Chinese character: 足 apparently pictures the knee-cap resting on the foot . The full circle suggests completion and rest, as opposed to motion. The modern form: 足, signifying foot at rest, is applicable to feet in general. And feet are generally at rest, as our example shows.

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The Chinese characters 止 meaning is halt, stop.
Although this Chinese character is a crude representation of the motionless foot, with the five toes reduced to three, it does not stand for “foot”. Its meanings are derived by extension and include: to halt, stop or stand still. The illustration shows how, in an emergency, the foot [...]

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The Chinese characters 齿 meaning is teeth.
The evolutionary struggle of this Chinese character sees man fighting a losing battle. Earliest forms show the mouth filled with teeth and later only the front teeth. The simplified version: 齿 drastically reduces the remaining teeth to one. But, with all that loss, man can still console himself that [...]

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The Chinese characters 自 meaning is self, oneself.
Because the nose sticks out most from the face — sometimes too far out — if characterizes the person and symbolizes his personality. A pictographic representation of the nose therefore personifies, not the nose, but “self” or “oneself”. The picture emphasizes the dominant role of the nose in [...]

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The Chinese characters 身 meaning is body.
This Chinese character originally meant “pregnant”; it pictured a human figure with prominent belly and one leg thrust forward to support and balance the body. The modern form: 身 also means “the human body” — either male or female, ordinary or outstanding. The picture shows a couple of outstanding [...]

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The Chinese characters 怕 meaning is fear.
The Chinese character for fear has, for radical, 忄 — a variant of heart 心. The phonetic, sound component 白 (white) collaborates with the radical, 忄 (heart) to instill the idea of fear into this Chinese character: 怕, which literally means: “white heart”, i.e., fear or lack of courage. [...]

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The Chinese characters 怒 meaning is anger, rage or passion.
The very sinister structure of 怒, meaning anger or passion, constitutes a warning to man, for 怒 was secured by bonding slave 奴 to heart 心. It cautions against giving way to anger or passion and becoming slave to the dictates of the heart.

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Some people say Chinese characters look like mysterious image. Chinese characters are indeed different from English words, but the structure of Chinese characters and basic strokes has certain law. In order to help everyone to learn Chinese characters easy, I recommend several methods of learning Chinese characters.
1. Contrast Learning Chinese Characters
Some Chinese character can turn [...]

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