All of a sudden It occurs to me that the composition of Chinese characters were mostly for a reason,which is teached in my first class.For example,"男" is consisted of "田"and "力" and in reality,the man(男) is the one that work(力) in the fields(田).There are many such examples. Learning Chinese is difficult but interesting and you'll love it. well,I hope you can understand although I may not make myself clear because of my poor vocabulary.