6. 火(huo)= fire
It came from the picture of a flame .
Than, the two flame beside the biggest flame simplified to be like this .
Finally, we got this character火.
7. 口(kou)= mouth
The simple picture of human face.
8. 目(mu) = eye
Word “mu” is just like an eye that written vertically.
Then became,
At last, it’s written vertically and became character目.
9. 手(shou) = hand
手
10. 川 (chuan) = river
川
11. 門(men) = gate, door
that evolved and became character 門.
12. 爪(zhao) = claw
爪
13. 田(tian)= rice field
A picture of a rice field
It became character 田.
14. 羊(yang)= goat
and then be just like this 羊.
15. 魚(yu)= fish
The picture of fish
魚
16. 車(che)= vehicle
Ancient Chinesepeople wrote vehicle character from the most popular vehicle at that time. Of course it wasn’t a car, a motorcycle, or the other modern vehicles. The most popular vehicle in ancient China was a cart. From up above, the cart it seems like the picture below...
From the picture that you have seen above. Ancient Chinese create a pictogram like this .
After some transfomation, this character become simpler and have a shape like character “dong”(east). The modern word for vehicle is 車. It often combined with character
汽(qi) and become 汽車( qi che) that means car.
17. 天(tian)= sky
Character “tian” came from this following picture...
After that, it standardize and becam this modern character for sky 天.
Just for some addition, the modern Chinese character “天” have two horizontal lines. The first line is shorter than the second. In fact, if we see this character seriously and see how this character became we’ll know and realize that the first line must longer than the second. How can the sky smaller than the man that look at the sky?
18. 老(lao)= old
This illustration was modificated by ancient Chinese and became 老.
19. 刀(dao)= knife
It formed by the modification of the pictogram shaped like knife. The pictogram is like this.
20. 止(zhi)= stop
Pay attention with the picture below
Compare it with this one
止
Is it clear enough?
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