一个天南，一个地北

• 一(first; number one (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE

A single horizontal stroke symbolizes the number one, the beginning of all things.

• 人(person; man; human)ASSOCIATIVE
• 丨(straight stroke; line)PHONETIC

A person standing straight like a stroke in a ledger is an individual.

• 大(adult; large (pictographic))RADICAL
• 一(one; top)ASSOCIATIVE

The sky is the vast, boundless expanse that lies above human beings.

• 十(ten; centripetal)ASSOCIATIVE
• 冂(remote area; surround)ASSOCIATIVE
• 丷干(branch; trunk)ASSOCIATIVE

The south is a warm sunny place where trees flourish densely beneath an open sky.

• 土(earth; soil; land)RADICAL
• 也(also; punctuation mark (archaic))PHONETIC

The wide earth (soil) is also where all things flourish and grow.

• ⼔(person turning back; figure of person from behind)ASSOCIATIVE

Two people standing back-to-back represent North, the direction ancients faced away from.