This is the first poem in the Book of Poetry (诗经) probably compiled in the sixth century B. C. It describes the life and love of Chinese people living about three thousand years ago. In the first stanza the method of association is used. That is to say, on hearing a pair of water-birds, the [...]

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The Chinese characters 笑 meaning is laugh; smile.
笑 has an amusing origin. The phonetic element: 夭 depicts a man inclining his head to laugh more easily, suggesting rocking or shaking. The radical component is the metamorphosis of 竹 (bamboo). Likens such laughter to the swaying of bamboo in the breeze. But laughing or smiling is [...]

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The Chinese characters 算 meaning is calculate; plan.
算, the Chinese character for calculate or plan, is cleverly conceived: two hands manipulating an abacus made of bamboo. Although 算 emphasizes doing with the hands, it also means to contrive, as exemplified by the character shown here who is planning more and doing less.

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The Chinese characters 笔 meaning is pen.
A hand holding a stylus, scratching lines on a tablet, symbolizes a writing stylus. Bamboo (竹) added to stylus produces pen. Bamboo combined with hair (毛) also makes “pen”: 笔. Although both the traditional character 筆 and simplified character 笔 can be used to write “pen”, the saying goes: [...]

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The Chinese characters 竹 meaning is bamboo.
The Chinese character 竹 for bamboo is a pictograph of two whorls of bamboo leaves. Unlike a wayward man, the bamboo grows straight and upright into a useful and decorative plant. “The bamboo stick makes a good child,” so says the proverb. Our picture demonstrates how starting right from [...]

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The Chinese characters 花 meaning is flower.
Originally, 化 pictured a man tumbling heels over head, indicating a complete change - a metamorphosis. With the plant radical (艹) grafted on, 化 assumed a different character and blossomed into a flower: 花 - that part of a plant (艹) which is strikingly transformed (化) or changed from [...]

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The Chinese characters 叶 meaning is leaves.
The original seal form graphically portrays the luxuriant foliage of a tree. The regular form: 葉, signifying the generations (世) of a treelike (木) plant (艹), suggests the seasonal sprouting of leaves. The simplified character, however, simply borrows the character: 叶 (originally “harmony”) and leaves the harmonizing to the [...]

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The Chinese characters 苗 meaning is sprouts; shoots.
The concept of “sprout” (苗) germinates from grain stalks sprouting in a cultivated field (苗). By extension, 苗 includes man’s offspring, his progeny. As illustration, we picture here a productive farmer with his “sprouts”- the fruit of much labor of love and toil.

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The Chinese characters 草 meaning is grass; weeds.
A pictograph of grass, commonly written: 草. Despised as weed that sways with the wind, the lowly grass nevertheless provides the root for a host of “plant” characters. And, unlike the grassroots of human society, it can draw comfort from the proverb: “Every blade of grass has its [...]

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The Chinese characters 点 meaning is point; spot; dot.
The phonetic component: 占 means to divine, to ask about or interpret orally the cracks of a heated tortoise shell - to point out the unknown. Adding the radical component: 黑 (black) emphasizes the point with black. Hence: 點, a black point, a spot or dot. The [...]

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