The Chinese characters 自 meaning is self, oneself.
Because the nose sticks out most from the face — sometimes too far out — if characterizes the person and symbolizes his personality. A pictographic representation of the nose therefore personifies, not the nose, but “self” or “oneself”. The picture emphasizes the dominant role of the nose in [...]

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The Chinese characters 身 meaning is body.
This Chinese character originally meant “pregnant”; it pictured a human figure with prominent belly and one leg thrust forward to support and balance the body. The modern form: 身 also means “the human body” — either male or female, ordinary or outstanding. The picture shows a couple of outstanding [...]

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The Chinese characters 怕 meaning is fear.
The Chinese character for fear has, for radical, 忄 — a variant of heart 心. The phonetic, sound component 白 (white) collaborates with the radical, 忄 (heart) to instill the idea of fear into this Chinese character: 怕, which literally means: “white heart”, i.e., fear or lack of courage. [...]

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The Chinese characters 怒 meaning is anger, rage or passion.
The very sinister structure of 怒, meaning anger or passion, constitutes a warning to man, for 怒 was secured by bonding slave 奴 to heart 心. It cautions against giving way to anger or passion and becoming slave to the dictates of the heart.

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The Chinese characters 心 meaning is heart.
The original pictograph was a representation of the physical heart. Its membranous sac was ripped open, exposing it and a delineation of the aorta appended below. A stylization provided the basis for the modern form: 心. Recognition of this vital organ’s role as seat of motivation for both good [...]

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The Chinese characters 计 meaning is calculate, plan or scheme.
Sayings 言 in tens 十 implies the ability to calculate 計 — to know how to enumerate the ten numbers of the decimal system. By extension, 计 means to reckon, to plan, to scheme. Below we show a pair of scheming, calculating characters, counting their chickens.

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The Chinese characters 古 meaning is old, ancient.
This Chinese character 古 is applicable to that which has passed through ten 十 mouths 口 — a tradition dating back ten generations. It includes anything very old, ancient, of antiquity — whether valuable, invaluable or valueless. The picture illustrates the process of passing through ten mouths something [...]

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The Chinese characters 十 meaning is ten.
十 is a symbol of completeness. It represents extent in two dimensions(一 and 丨) and is formed by joining the five cardinal points: east, west, north, south and center. Therefore, the sign is an appropriate symbol for the numeral 10 — a complete number containing all the other simple [...]

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The Chinese characters 说 meaning is speak, theory or story.
说 is a Chinese character that speaks for itself; it means to speak, i.e., to exchange 兑 words 言. It is an ideogram. It can also mean theory, opinion or story as, for example: 小说 means “small story” or a novel.

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The Chinese characters 兑 meaning is exchange, barter.
The Chinese character 兑 originally meant to speak, bless or rejoice. It was derived from older brother’s 兄 dissipation of effluent breath into words of encouragement: 兑 involving the exchange of words. With money talking louder than words in man’s affluent society, there arose the need to exchange [...]

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