Earthly Branches
The modern 21-stroke Chinese character for "kui" combines five elements: "shou" "head", "zhi" "stop", "si" "6th (of 12 Earthly Branches)", "ba" "8", and "zhi" "walk slowly". These enigmatic elements were graphically simplified from the ancient Oracle bone script and Seal script pictographs for "kui" 夔 showing "a face of demon, two arms, a belly, a tail, and two feet".