饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙

• 飠(eat; food)RADICAL
• 反(flip over; reverse)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Rice is food that must be flipped and turned over many times to be cooked properly.

• 口(mouth; door)RADICAL
• 后(behind; empress (figuratively—one who rules from behind))ASSOCIATIVE

A mouth giving orders from behind the golden throne is the authority of an empress.

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

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

• 十(ten; branch)ASSOCIATIVE
• 又(right hand)ASSOCIATIVE

A hand grasping a tree branch depicts the image of support and branching.

• 火(fire)RADICAL
• 因(cause; reason)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Smoke rises from fire for some reason.

• 宀(roof; cover)ASSOCIATIVE
• 貝(shell; currency)RADICAL

Competing for talent means offering money under the roof to win prizes.

• 辶(step; move)RADICAL
• 寸(inch; unit of measurement)PHONETIC

One small step of the foot gets you across and past that place.

• 氵(water; liquid)RADICAL
• 舌(blade; tongue)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Living water flowing through a blade creates constant vitality and flexibility.

• 礻(spirit; ritual)RADICAL
• 申(display; thunder)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A divine spirit is a being whose thunder and lightning are the pronouncements transmitted by that sacred presence.