Ancient Emperor Huang Di (2697 - 2597 B.C.) ordered his historian Can Ji to establish a writing system for China. Can Ji invented a system of Chinese characters based on pictographs, representing each word by the physical appearance of the object. A few of the pictographs or ideograms invented by Can Ji are listed in the following table. Note how the characters evolved with time to the present characters that are familiar to most Chinese nowadays.

As for words that don't have form or shape, like actions, feelings, senses etc., Can Ji was creative enough to combine the ideograms that he invented to represent them. For examples, as shown in the following table, combining the components 'mouth' and 'bird' makes the word 'sing', and the combination of 'sun' and 'moon' makes the word 'bright'.

And indeed, through the sins of one man (Adam) we are separated from God; and only by accepting Jesus (flaming sword), can we return to him.

The origin of this word becomes more meaningful after reading the following verse. Genesis 7:7 - And Noah and his sons [Ham, Shem, and Japheth] and his wife and his sons' wives with him, went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.

The word 'mouth' is often used to describe number of family members. For example, the phrase 'One family of four mouths' means a family with four members. Four couples in Noah's family have a total of eight members.

In the Old Testament people sacrifice lambs for their sins. In the New Testament, Jesus died for our sins on the cross to give us salvation, for God is just and loving. The only way to salvation is to accept Jesus who paid for our sins.