I can teach you 旦: 日is the sun which you have already known. 一 below the 日 means ground，so when the sun arises above the ground means morning comes.

Please use this website to study the developing of characters. http://www.chineseetymology.org/ Here is an example for "马" http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?characterInput=%E9%A9%AC&submitButton1=Etymology I think you are on the right track in studying characters. Better also study the creating methods of Chinese characters, words, and sentences. Those would all make sense about characters & Chinese grammar. Then you could try to comprehend more than to pay energy on the boring "memorising" progress. :)

Hello Mehmet, It is true, that you can not follow this method in memorizing all Chinese characters. I am learning the characters as well and it is not that easy task. It requires a lot of practice to help you learn them by heart.It depends on your visual memory ,so you need to read them a lot. However there is another approach of using 'radicals' which is a list of about 216 simple characters (2 or 3 strokes ) that stand for certain words or concepts. They usually form part of other more intricate multi stroke characters and indicate part of its meaning such as the character 女 （ nv) ,which indicates female entities. Examples: 女人 woman 女孩 girl , lass Here you notice both have the same radical 女 ,so it would make it easier for you to memorize the character knowing that it partly refer to a feminine entity and you can then learn the rest of the character by heart. This method thus facilitate your ability to memorize. You can check the list of Chinese radicals here: http://www.netcorpus.com/chinese/radicals/list

I am afraid not much chinese words could be remembered in this way.

您问的问题涉及到了汉字的造字法，即一个汉字是怎样构造出来的。比较常见的有，象形、形声、会意、指事、转注、假借，而并非像您所认为的那样所有的汉字都是象形字。