真金不怕火来烧

• 直(straight; upright)ASSOCIATIVE
• 几(small table)ASSOCIATIVE

A straight, honest gaze is truth displayed openly like a table laid plainly before the eyes.

• 金(gold; metal (figurative))ASSOCIATIVE

Metal is an ancient image of precious metal hidden underground, gleaming and sparkling.

• 不(no; not; negation)ASSOCIATIVE

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

• 忄(heart; mood)RADICAL
• 白(white)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Fear makes the heart tremble and the face turn deathly pale.

• 火(fire (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE

The character 火 depicts a flame bursting with fire sparks radiating out on both sides.

• 木(tree; plant; stick)ASSOCIATIVE
• 从(follow; accompany)ASSOCIATIVE

Wheat (a plant with a person beneath it) is something people bring, so this character means 'to come' or 'to arrive'.

• 火(fire)RADICAL
• 尧(Yao (ancient ruler))PHONETIC

Fire blazing fiercely and violently like when Emperor Yao set the sky ablaze with light.