The Chinese characters 妹 meaning is younger sister.
未, the phonetic, is a tree in full leaf and branch, but not fully mature and means: “not”. With the addition of the radical for girl (女), the Chinese character for “younger sister” is formed. Hence 妹: a girl (女) who has not yet (未) reached maturity.

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The Chinese characters 未 meaning is not; not yet.
This Chinese character is to be distinguished from 末 in that the horizontal stroke across the top is much shorter: 未. In 末 the top line is emphasized; in 未 it is subdued, not fully grown. Hence 未: not yet. Those who have “not yet” attained their [...]

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The Chinese characters 末 meaning is tip; end.
Just as the root (本) of a tree (木) is emphasized by a horizontal stroke at its base, so the top of the tree (木) is indicated by a long horizontal line at the top: 末, suggesting the tip or end — its limit. In growing upright like [...]

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The Chinese characters 课 meaning is lesson.
课, meaning “lesson”, is based on words (言) and fruit (果). A lesson involves the use of words of instruction to produce results, i.e., bear fruit. But, for words to be fruitful, take a lesson from the proverb: “Bitter words are medicine; sweet words bring illness.”

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The Chinese characters 果 meaning is fruit.
The earliest form was a stylized tree sporting a showy display of fruit. As it grew mighty, it boasted of more fruit, but these are not easily discernible in the modern form: 果. The proverb provides a clue to the missing fruit: “Though a tree grows to a thousand [...]

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The Chinese characters 体 meaning is The body.
The traditional Chinese characters: 體combines bone (骨) with plenty (豊). The simplified characters gets to the root (本) of man (亻), reducing him to a skeleton character: 体.

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The Chinese characters 本 meaning is root; origin; source.
本 is a pictograph of a tree (木) with the root and stump emphasized by a horizontal stroke, indicating the level of the earth. Although the root is the lowest part of the tree, it is of the highest value in its struggle for survival. With good [...]

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The Chinese characters 来 meaning is come.
“He who sows his grain in the field puts his trust in heaven,” so observed the proverb. A bountiful yield of grain was therefore gratefully acknowledged as having come from above. Thus 来, originally a pictograph of growing wheat or barley, came to stand for “come”. The simplified character [...]

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The Chinese characters 有 meaning is have.
Early forms portrayed a hand grasping a piece of meat, signifying to possess or to have. Because of the resemblance between meat and moon (月), man soon lost sight of meat and reached for the moon, promising it to anyone he wishes to possess. Today, with hand on moon [...]

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The first two stanzas of this poem are realistic, written in a simple and plain style and the third more imaginative, written in a picturesque style. In AD 207 Cao Cao (155 - 220), King of Wei State, who had unified northern China, came to the Rocky Hill, which is now situated 8 km north [...]

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