先王之乐

• 土(earth; soil; land)ASSOCIATIVE
• 儿(person (variant))RADICAL

A person standing on the ground stepping forward represents going first or before.

• 王(king; sovereign (represented as three realms—heaven, humanity, earth—connected by a vertical line))ASSOCIATIVE

A king is the only person who connects all three levels: heaven, people, and earth.

• 之(walk; arrive; step on ground)ASSOCIATIVE

A footstep moving forward on the ground represents "go to," which then becomes a grammatical particle.

• 小(small; tiny)RADICAL
• 丿(stroke; string (resembling a zither string))ASSOCIATIVE

Music is like tiny vibrating strings that create wonderful melodies.