The story of 物

thing, object

物 is composed of the BuShou of 牛(cow) and 勿(do not). 勿 depicts a knife which is cutting across something, all thing except own self can be cut. On the other hand, cow is the most important property of every ancient Chinese family, so 物 is used to represent thing, object or matter.

Vocabulary of 物

Classification

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