This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

A mortar 臼 and pestle 千

  • 臿 to separate the grain from the husk chā
    • 千 thousand; many, numerous; very qiān
      • 丿 slash piě
      • 十 ten, tenth; complete; perfect shí
    • 臼 mortar; bone joint socket jiù
臿 chā to separate the grain from the husk 插歃锸

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