The Chinese characters 来 meaning is come.
“He who sows his grain in the field puts his trust in heaven,” so observed the proverb. A bountiful yield of grain was therefore gratefully acknowledged as having come from above. Thus 来, originally a pictograph of growing wheat or barley, came to stand for “come”. The simplified character [...]

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The Chinese characters 有 meaning is have.
Early forms portrayed a hand grasping a piece of meat, signifying to possess or to have. Because of the resemblance between meat and moon (月), man soon lost sight of meat and reached for the moon, promising it to anyone he wishes to possess. Today, with hand on moon [...]

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The Chinese characters 胖 meaning is fat; fleshy.
The original idea of 半 is “half a ox”, denoting size. The radical: 月 (flesh) supplements the thought, indicating fleshiness. Hence 胖: fleshy or fat. Beefiness and other bovine characteristics are not altogether undesirable according to the proverb: “You win a cat and lose a cow.”

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The Chinese characters 肉 meaning is flesh; meat.
The Chinese character for meat: 肉 is composed of pieces of dried meat wrapped in a bundle. From the ancient custom of offering such dried meat to the teacher came the term: “dried-meat money” - a teacher’s pay.

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The Chinese characters 牧 meaning is tend cattle; graze.
The phonetic: 攵 depict right hand wielding a rod. The radical: 牛 (cattle) added to 攵 (oversee) forms the ideogram: 牧, meaning to oversee cattle. Such oversight teaches man the futility of brute force against will power. In the words of the proverb: “If an ox won’t [...]

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The Chinese characters 告 meaning is indict; tell; inform.
Originally 告 means to indict or accuse, i.e., do with the mouth (口) what the ox (牛) does with the horns: to gore. By extension it also means to tell, inform or even to warn. So, before starting to gore like an ox, be warned: “Man knows [...]

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The Chinese characters 伴 meaning is companion; associate; mate.
The ideograph: 伴 is made up of people (亻) and half (半), suggesting that the single man is but half of a pair. To attain “oneness” another half, a complement, is needed. Hence: 伴, meaning companion, associate or mate. In the choice of a better half, let [...]

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The Chinese characters 半 meaning is half.
This Chinese character originated from the butcher’s practice of dividing an ox (牛) into two halves, in all its length, before cutting up. Ox is exact divided into the two halves. Hence: 半, meaning “half”. Even though it is easy to split one ox into two halves, the saying [...]

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The Chinese characters 牢 meaning is prison.
The original seal form of this Chinese character pictures a paddock confining an ox (牛) after the day’s hard labor. The modern simplified character: 牢 mercifully puts a roof (宀) over the ox (牛). By extension, 牢 represents a prison for the incarceration of “beasts” of human society who [...]

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The Chinese characters 件 meaning is piece; article; item.
Lamenting the injustice of class distinction, man drew a parallel from animal life: “The ox ploughs the field and the horse eats the grain.” When it came to picking a classifier for things in general, he favored representatives of the two nobler classes: man himself (亻) and [...]

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