不列颠哥伦比亚省

• 不(no; not; negation)ASSOCIATIVE

A bird flying swiftly upward and never willing to return represents the meaning of swift and unyielding.

• 歹(bones; death)ASSOCIATIVE
• 刂(blade; knife edge)RADICAL

Using a knife to chop bones into rows is the meaning of the character for arranging in lines.

• 口(mouth; opening)RADICAL
• 可(can; agree)PHONO-SEMANTIC

An older brother is someone whose mouth always speaks approved words, repeated twice.

• 匕(kneeling person (pictograph); two people paired)ASSOCIATIVE

Two people standing beside each other to compare who is better or worse — that is the character Tỉ.

• 目(eye)RADICAL
• 少(little; few)ASSOCIATIVE

When your eyes see less and you shrink your view inward to examine yourself, that is the meaning of 省.