强将手下无弱兵

• 弓(bow; archery weapon)RADICAL
• 厶(private; contract; withdraw)ASSOCIATIVE
• 虫(insect; worm)ASSOCIATIVE

A stubborn worm as tense as a drawn bowstring represents unyielding strength.

• 丬(piece of meat; half body)ASSOCIATIVE
• 夕(evening; crescent moon)ASSOCIATIVE
• 寸(inch; palm)RADICAL

A general holding meat in his hand under the moonlight at night, ready to command.

• 手(hand (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE

The character 手 mimics the image of a hand with five fingers spread out.

• 一(horizontal line; boundary)RADICAL
• 卜(stroke descending downward)ASSOCIATIVE

A vertical stroke pointing downward across a boundary line marks 'below'.

• 一(one; initial)ASSOCIATIVE
• 尢(disabled person; insufficient)ASSOCIATIVE

From the beginning there was a shortage, so 無 means 'nothing at all'.

• 弓(bow (weapon))RADICAL
• 冫(small; weak)ASSOCIATIVE

Two broken bows, each with small cracks added — weak bows mean weak shooting power.

• 丘(mound; heap)ASSOCIATIVE
• 八(scattered; dispersed)RADICAL

A soldier holding a weapon gathers with others into a formation as solid as an earthen mound.