Can you imagine how many things are related to a tree? The basic characters derived from tree 木. Check out the component of 木.
Author: Decode Mandarin Chinese
Characters derived from person 人
If one person follows another person, what is it in Chinese? If three persons are together, what then? Where are 大, 天, 夫 from?
For further study of the component 人
Don’t miss out characters with cattle 牛?
Horses and cattle were very important domestic animals in the past. We have already learned characters with horse 马. How can we miss out characters with cattle 牛? Characters with 牛 certainly relate to cattle.
Characters with horse 马
Look how a horse 马 combines with other characters without change their pronunciations to form new characters. Of course the newly-formed characters’ meanings are all horse-related.
Where is the sheep 羊?
Sheep are docile animals; they were offered by the ancient people to God; they were eaten; etc. In a word, sheep played a very important role. Needlessly to say there are quite a few characters composed of 羊. How is 羊 sheep written in Chinese characters? You can see from the picture 羊 sheep can be written in various ways. All the meanings of the characters here are their original meanings.
