The Chinese characters 戈 meaning is spear or lance.
戈 is a pictographic representation of an weapon of ancient China - a lance equipped with hook and crossbar. Although this and other ancient Chinese weapons are now obsolete, man has not even begun to beat his swords into ploughshares or his spears into pruning hooks.

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The Chinese characters 手 meaning is hand.
The earliest pictograph for hand placed undue emphasis on the palm lines as basis. Practical experience, however, put man on the right lines - the fingers. Finally, reinforced with straight lines the character assumed the modem form - with fingers of unequal length. As the proverb goes, “Of the [...]

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The Chinese characters 友 meaning is friend.
The Chinese character for “friend” originated with two right hands acting co-operatively in the same direction, and later reaching out to clasp each other in friendship. By placing the hands, one upon the other, with a little straightening out, man derived the modern reinforced form: 友.

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The Chinese characters 奴 meaning is slave or servant.
A woman (女) under the hand of a master signifies slave (奴). The components 女 and 又 put together literally mean “handmaid” — a female who slaves with her hands. 奴 includes slaves of both sexes who serve their masters hand and foot.

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The Chinese characters 中 meaning is center, middle or neutral.
By shooting an arrow into the center of a square target, man scored a bull’s-eye and secured a mark for “center”. He added a decoration of four stripes; rearranged them; stripped them off; and finally hit his mark for simplicity: 中. The symbol also means [...]

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The Chinese characters 下 meaning is down, below or descend.
The concept of down and below is clarified in relation to a horizontal line. The stroke below the fundamental line was originally a dot, which was extended to a line for ease in writing. The modified forms eventually led to the final ideograph: 下. The Chinese [...]

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The Chinese characters 上 meaning is up, above or ascend.
Since up and down, above and below are relative and abstract terms, man conveyed the ideas graphically by relating a simple stroke to a horizontal foundation line. This stroke above the base line was originally a dot, extended to a line, propped upright, embellished and finally [...]

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The Chinese characters 西 meaning is west.
As the sun settles in the west birds roost in their nests; so a cross-hatched bird’s nest provided the cradle for “west”, and nest became the original west. Man’s fertile imagination conceived a new ideogram — a nest with a brooding bird. Finally developed into a full-fledged Chinese character [...]

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The Chinese characters 东 meaning is east.
Man turned his head around, looking for a suitable sign for “east” — the direction he faced when he saw the sun rise every day. He succeeded one morning when he observed the sun (日) through the trees (木). So sun behind tree became east (東). Fortunately, success did [...]

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The Chinese characters 休 meaning is rest or cease.
This is a refreshing Chinese characters for any person (人) working near a shady tree (木). 亻 is transformation of 人, and it is Chinese character component. It literally means “rest” (休) and pictures a person leaning against a tree. Chinese proverb: “One generation plants the trees [...]

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