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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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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