The Chinese characters 分 meaning is divide; separate.
This ideogram is made up of 八 (divide), and clarified by radical 刀 (knife) to enforce the idea of dividing or separating. It is like dividing with a knife. 分 is used also for any small division, component or part, e.g., a minute, a mark or a cent.

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The Chinese characters 刀 meaning is knife, sword.
This radical is a pictograph of a knife or sword. Wielded in the cause of justice, the sword protects the innocent; but brandished irresponsibly, it is double-edged. A sharp blade is likened to a person vested with too much power, and a proverb warns: “A knife that’s too [...]

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The Chinese characters 完 meaning is finish; complete.
This ideogram places roof (宀) over head (元). 元 means that which is upon (上 or 二) a person (人 or 儿), i.e., the head, origin or principle. So, putting on the roof over the head finishes (完) the building. Hence: 完, the end.

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The Chinese characters 定 meaning is fix; decide; certain.
This character is made up of roof (宀) and order (正). It signifies peace and order under the roof, implanting the idea of fixed, certain or decided: 定. Order under the roof comes before order under the heavens, although the proverb states in no uncertain terms: “It [...]

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The Chinese characters 害 meaning is harm; injure.
丰 represents a stick marred by notches; mouth (口) suggests harm caused by slander; and roof (宀) indicates injury done under cover, i.e., secretly. From these components people created harm: 害, fully realising that “he who harms others, harms himself.”

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The Chinese characters 宝 meaning is precious.
Among the ancients, the precious things under the roof (宀) were jade (玉 or 王), earthenware (缶) and money cowrie (貝). Hence: 寶, meaning precious. Under his toof, modern people treasures gem or jade (玉), so he simplified 寶 to 宝. But, in his shop; “customers are the precious [...]

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The Chinese characters 富 meaning is rich; abundant.
People created this symbol for material prosperity: 富; from 宀 (roof), 高 (high) and 田 (field). Under shelter of the roof (宀), he piled up high the products of his field and amassed great wealth: 富. Spiritual wealth, however, is to be preferred, according to the saying: “Riches [...]

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This poem was written in the spring of 757 when Du Fu was still a captive in the capital occupied by the rebels. In the first couplet we see the contrast between man and nature. The second line is antithetical: the city should be beautiful in spring but grass and weed overgrew in disorder. It [...]

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The Chinese characters 开 meaning is open.
A bar o r bolt across the door means to shut. Two hands taking away the bar signifies to open: 开. But there is more to the business of opening than just unbolting the door. As the proverb says: “To open a shop is easy; the difficult thing is [...]

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The Chinese characters 闻 meaning is hear; news.
In this ideograph, “ear” (耳) becomes “hear” when placed at the door (门). By extension 闻 also means news, for the ear is the door of knowledge or information. But not all news obtained by the ear is reliable, as the saying goes: “What the ear hears is [...]

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