The Chinese characters 羊 meaning is sheep; goat.
Because of its mild and gentle nature, the sheep (羊) is a fitting symbol for meekness. Its pictographic representations take on well-balanced forms. Early versions show frontal views of the head; later modifications fill in the horns, ears, legs and tail. When combined with other components, the tail [...]

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The Chinese characters 鲁 meaning is stupid; simple.
In his eagerness to acquire an ideograph for simple or stupid, man literally acted the part. He appended to fish (鱼) a representation of a nose which was later corrupted to 曰 (speak). The tragic result: a “dumb” fish unable to speak and a “nosey” one, without scent [...]

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The Chinese characters 鱼 meaning is fish.
鱼 is a pictograph of the fish, whose predatory habits prompt man to snap at his own fishy wily of life: “Big fish eat small fish; small fish eat water insects; water insects eat weeds and mud.” The tail of the fish proves to be its fiery end, being [...]

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The Chinese characters 扇 meaning is fan.
In this ideograph, a wing (羽) is likened to the leaf of a door (户) in that its attachment is at the end, and both are capable of vibrating and spreading out like a fan: 扇. The combination of these two related components enforces the idea of “fan”, a [...]

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The Chinese characters 习 meaning is practice.
This ideogram combines wings (羽) with self (自), contraction of (自), suggesting a young bird learning to fly by itself. Copying the bird, man also tries to fly by speeding up the simplification of the original intricate Chinese character, using only one wing for “practice”: 习. Woe betides the [...]

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The Chinese characters 羽 meaning is feathers; wings.
Feathers - the showy plumage of birds - are represented by a pair of wings. Like human nature, feathers have changed little in character through the ages. From the original to finally 羽, all look alike at a glance. To confirm this, our illustration takes a closer look [...]

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The Chinese characters 飞 meaning is fly.
This Chinese character draws its inspiration from the migratory flight of the crane - with the long neck of the bird folded on itself. The flight is speeded up by simplifying the regular form, lightening its load of strokes from nine to three: 飞.

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Write in the South Village of the Capital is a lyric. Its author is poet Cui Hu (崔护) of the Tang Dynasty. He traveled to South Village of outskirts of Chang An (capital of Tang Dynasty) on the Qing Ming Festival (a traditional festival of China). He felt thirsty, and then knocked at a peasant [...]

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The Chinese characters 乌 meaning is crow.
The saying: “The crow does not roost with the phoenix” sums up man’s attitude towards the lowly carrion crow, regarded as a bird of ill omen. The character for crow: 乌 is similar to that for bird: 鸟, with the stroke for the eyes omitted, probably because black eyes [...]

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The Chinese characters 岛 meaning is island.
Sea-birds often nest on mountainous rocks that emerge from the sea. Hence a bird (鸟) over a mountain (山) gave the concept for island: 岛. The ancient form shows a bird hovering over a mountain, with feet visible. The simplified character has the bird settling on it, with feet [...]

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