The Chinese characters 香 meaning is fragrant.
The seal form of this radical for fragrant represents the sweet (甘) odor of millet(黍) undergoing fermentation. Grain (禾), the essence of millet grain (黍) was distilled for the modified version, leading to the modern form: 香.

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 甘 meaning is sweet.
“Sweetness” is handled with taste in the proverb: “All food tastes sweet to those who are hungry.” The radical for “sweet” pictures the mouth (口) with something in it worth holding - something sweet: 甘. 甘 can be extended to include anything pleasing to the senses, as illustrated here.

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 年 meaning is year.
“Flowers bloom year by year with the same beauty, but people changes from year to year.” People’s fickleness is evident in their quest for a suitable character for “year”.

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 和 meaning is harmony; and.
Grain (禾), being man’s staple food, is most agreeable to the mouth (口). Hence, grain (禾) agrees with mouth (禾) to produce harmony: 和. Also agreeable is the proverbial saying: “If a family lives in harmony, all affairs will prosper.”

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 秃 meaning is bald; bare.
This ideogram likens the top or head of man to a field of grain (禾) after the harvest. Hence: 秃, meaning bare or bald. We show here man in the autumn of his life - after his very last harvest.

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 税 meaning is tax.
To justify taxation, man coined 税 from 禾 (grain) and 兑 (exchange). Evidently farmers paid their taxes in grain (禾) in “exchange” (兑) for services and privileges. The proverb, however, has the last word: “Those who are prospering do not argue about taxes.” They just close their eyes, shut [...]

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 愁 meaning is sad; melancholy.
As the year declines, with each falling leaf signaling autumn (秋), man’s heart (心) becomes weighed down with a nostalgic melancholy. He realizes nature cannot jump from winter to summer without a spring or from summer to winter without a fall. Hence: 愁 - the influence of autumn [...]

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 秋 meaning is autumn.
During the autumn harvest, the grain (禾) ripens under the fiery heat (火) of the sun. Hence: 秋, meaning “autumn”. In China, one can see the waste stalks of grain (禾) disposed of by fire (火) after the harvesting and threshing in Autumn.

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds

The Chinese characters 禾 meaning is grain.
禾, the radical for “grain”, is a tree (木) with the top bent over to represent the head of a ripened grain. The grain-stalk provides, not only food for the body, but also food for thought: the more grain it bears in the head, the more it bends in [...]

If you enjoy my post, feel free to subscribes to my rss feeds