文化 (wén huà)

Character breakdown

• 文 (Wén) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a man with writing (possibly a tattoo) on his chest. In later scripts the writing was abbreviated to a dot or omitted altogether.

• 化 (huā) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a right-side up person (亻) and an upside-down person (𠤎), depicting the meaning "turn around" or "transform".