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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