The Chinese characters 问 meaning is ask; enquire; question.
Enquiries are often made at the door, the entrance to a house. A mouth (口) at the door (门) therefore becomes a fitting ideograph for ask or enquire: 问. It can also mean question or interrogate, although to do so in an officious manner would be, according [...]

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The Chinese characters 们 meaning is plural sign.
This Chinese character has 人 (person) as radical and 门 (door) as phonetic. 门 is a door with two leaves instead of one. Clarified by the radical for person, it is the plural sign for nouns and pronouns, applied to people. For example 我 meaning is I, 我们 [...]

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The Chinese characters 门 meaning is door; gate.
Just as 户 symbolizes a one-leafed door, so 門 represents a door with two leaves. Doors provide exits and entrances, but not all are convenient, as exemplified in the proverb: “The door of charity is hard to open, and hard to shut!” The simplified character 门 has now [...]

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The Chinese characters 新 meaning is new.
Freshly chopped from the hazel bush (亲)for flexibility, were once used for flogging criminals, sometimes extort a confession. Hence: 新, the symbol for “new”, indicated by the hazel rods (亲) and the axe (斤).

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The Chinese characters 质 meaning is quality.
Two axes poised above a cowrie shell (贝, representing something precious), are ready to dissect it and ascertain its worth. The axes ensure a complete and thorough job. Hence: 质, denoting quality or value.

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The Chinese characters 近 meaning is near.
This ideograph suggests the proper way for a warrior to advance to battle - with battle-axe in hand. i.e., near. Hence: 近, meaning “near”.

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The Chinese characters 兵 meaning is soldier; army.
兵 is represented by two hands brandishing a battle-axe - symbol of the soldier. Lamenting the necessity of maintaining an army in a belligerent world, one proverb concludes: “Feed soldiers for a thousand days, to be used for one day.”

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Du Fu wrote this poem in 736 at the age of twenty-four when he travelled in modern Shandong Province. The first couplet tells us his general impression of the Peak of Peaks viewed from afar: it was one boundless green overspreading the ancient States of Qi in the north and Lu in the south. When [...]

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The Chinese characters 匠 meaning is artisan; craftsman.
An artisan: 匠 is represented by his tool: 斤 (an axe) and his work, a hollowed-out log, vessel or box). The craftsman’s dependence upon his tools prompts the saying: “The workman who would do his work well should first sharpen his tools.”

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The Chinese characters 所 meaning is place.
所 is a juxtaposition of 户 (door) and 斤 (axe), and refers to the place where fuel is prepared. In olden times, the chopping of firewood with the axe was done near the door or house. Hence: 所 (axe beside house) meaning place or location.

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