The Chinese characters 庆 meaning is celebrate; congratulate.
In ancient times it was traditional to go and offer, on a festive day, a deer’s skin with hearty wishes. The simplified character form for celebration puts it in a nutshell: something big (大) under cover or roof (广) - a big occasion indoors. Hence: 庆, to celebrate, [...]

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The Chinese characters 闯 meaning is rush; clash; charge.
The idea of rushing suddenly or rudely is graphically expressed in this ideograph of a swift horse (马) dashing through a door (门). The character suggests rashness or impetuosity, something to guard against.

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The Chinese characters 骆 meaning is camel.
马, representing a horse or beast of burden, is the radical. 各, the phonetic, means to go one’s way unconcernedly, without heeding others. This is a dominant characteristic of the self-sufficient camel: 骆, an animal blessed with great endurance and ability to go without food and water for weeks.

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The Chinese characters 骑 meaning is ride; sit astride.
THE phonetic 奇 means strange and wonderful. In association with 马 (horse) in the character for riding: 骑. To ride, therefore, is to sit on a horse - a wonderful experience. But don’t get carried away too easily, warns the proverb: “The best riders are sure to [...]

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The Chinese characters 马 meaning is horse.
馬 is a picturesque representation of a brawny horse rearing. It has since undergone drastic changes, losing eyes and mane. The simplified character form reduces it to three strokes: 马 - a skeleton horse, advanced in age but rich in experience, inspiring the proverb: “The old horse knows the [...]

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The Chinese characters 突 meaning is suddenly.
穴 is a hole made by removing and dividing rock or earth to provide a roof over the wild dog’s head. 突 represents the dog (犬) rushing out of its den to attack and bite an intruder. Hence the meaning suddenly or unexpectedly - without warning.

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Tao Qian wrote this poem probably in the year 417 at the age of 53, after the old cottage he described in Return to Nature was burned up in a fire. Lines 5-6 of this poem are the best-known verse representative of the poet’s love of nature and free dam. The chrysanthemum, the last cold-proof [...]

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The Chinese characters 哭 meaning is cry; wail; weep.
This Chinese character uses two mouths (口) to express intense action of the mouth, resembling the wailing of dogs (犬); so dog with two mouths means “wail”: 哭. Two mouths may effectively express crying and howling, but certainly, “two buckets of tears,” according to the proverb, “will [...]

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The Chinese characters 狱 meaning is prison; jail.
This ideograph places speech (讠) between two different forms of dogs (犭 and 犬). It represents a lawsuit: 狱, with the two suitors barking at each other like dogs. 狱 also means prison - for the loser. And, for the winner: “Win your lawsuit, and lose your money.”

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The Chinese characters 吠 meaning is bark.
Mouth (口) plus dog (犬) equals bark: 吠. This Chinese character, therefore, shows what makes a dog bark. The ancient proverb, however, explains what makes a hundred dogs bark: “One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the sound.”

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