音意竟景竞 Standing Man's Secret Meaning

音意竟景竞
Yīn yì jìng jǐng

They look alike, sound alike, and are somehow related so you better learn them as a group.

音Yīn Sound, music, its a pictograph of the tongue standardized into the mouth below 曰 and the tongue represented by the same character as the standing man 立

意yì Idea. Ideas are not necessarily spoken. The heart 心 is the center of thought.

竟jìng UNEXPECTEDLY SUDDENLY 儿kid+sound(tongue)=suddenly unexpectedly

景jǐng bright, scenery It's the sun 日 above the capitol building in Beijing 京

竞jìng compete contend struggle legs+mouth+tongue some mouthy guy ready to fight.

The key principle for newbies is: the standing man立 is sometimes used to depict  something else, here, the tong, sticking out.

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