動
ugokasu in Japanese, dòng in Chinese, means ‘to move,’ either transitively or intransitively.
The part on the left side
重
is omoi, zhòng in Chinese, meaning ‘heavy, serious.’ Those bits in the middle might be stone weights piled up on a spindle.
The bit on the right
力
is chikara, lì in Chinese, ‘power, force, strength,’ and originally pictured a sinew. What does a sinew look like, you ask? Good question.
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