The Chinese characters 鸟 meaning is bird.
The original form is a representation of a long-tailed bird, flaunting its beauty and reveling in its freedom. Unfortunately, beauty has not always been an asset to the bird for, as the saying goes, “It’s the beautiful bird that we put in the cage.” Tragically, the simplified character sees [...]

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The Chinese characters 山 meaning is mountain; hill.
A mountain range, with three towering peaks, provides the structure for this pictograph of mountain or hill: 山. From a high vantage point, man is able to oversee what is easily overlooked on a lower plane. Hence the proverb: “If you don’t climb the high mountain, you can’t [...]

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The Chinese characters 伞 meaning is umbrella.
伞 is a pictograph of an umbrella. The original form seems to be harboring four persons (人). The simplified character: 伞. Under cover of the umbrella, man counsels for the rainy day: “When the sky is clear, carry an umbrella; though your stomach is full, carry provisions.”

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The Chinese characters 雷 meaning is thunder.
From experience, man knows that rain clouds (雨) over his fields (田) means thunder: 雷, the voice of lightning. To man, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

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The Chinese characters 电 meaning is lightning; electricity.
A streak of lightning amidst the falling rain (雨) forged the character for lightning: 電. Lightning being a visible discharge of electricity, 电 came to mean also electricity. It takes the path of least resistance, discharging eight of its thirteen strokes to transform itself into the simplified character: [...]

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The Chinese characters 雪 meaning is snow.
The Chinese character 雪 associates rain 雨 with broom. The character fittingly symbolizes snow, i.e., rain which can be taken up in the hand or swept away by a broom.

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The Chinese characters 云 meaning is cloud.
When the humid warm vapors rise and reach the colder regions, they condense and form clouds: 云. Loading the clouds (云) with rain (雨) produces the regular form: 雲. The simplified character relieves the clouds of their load, reverting the character to its original form: 云.

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The Chinese characters 漏 meaning is leak.
The original Chinese character places rain 雨 under roof (abbreviation of 屋, house), enforcing the idea of “leak” – rain seeping through the roof into the house. The modern form reinforces the concept by adding more water in the form of the radical: 氵 (water): 漏.

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The Chinese characters 雨 meaning is rain.
雨, the Chinese character for rain, is a picture of raindrops falling vertically down from a cloud in the heavens. Not all welcome the rain as showers of blessing from heaven for, as the saying goes, “The farmer hopes for rain, the traveler for fine weather.”

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The Chinese characters 泉 meaning is spring; fountain.
The early forms show water gushing out from a mountain spring. The modern form: 泉, distilled from 白 (pure) and 水 (water), symbolizes the fountain or spring - source of pure, wholesome drinking water and the inspired expression: “When you drink water, think of the mountain spring (or [...]

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