The Chinese characters 解 meaning is untie; explain.

This Chinese character combines the radical for horn (角) with knife (刀) and ox (牛). To cleave the horn of an ox requires the use of a knife; hence 解: to divide. The horn of an ox is also shaped into bodkins for untying knots. So 解 also means to untie, undo, unravel and, by extension, explain.

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