Chinese word of the day!

 火箭

 

huo3 jian4 literally "fire arrow". In other words

Rocket

Missile

I wonder when and why I chose to colour code these byte sized lessons in vocabulary?

Picture of a camp fire on the left. Dots are sparks.

Bamboo determinant on top (looks like kk) means it has something to do with bamboo

Bottom part is phonetic, the sound clue. What's is a Body月made of bamboo竹, sharp like a sword刀, which sounds like前？ It is an ARROW.

I wonder Why I am writing a post about a fiery arrow aka a Rocket?