After last weekends, I found I just couldn't keep continue my presentle work, So I stopped and started to review. I reviewed all photos I took and previous photos in my iphoto and I found a photo above which made me thinking: can we use symbols to explain what is "福"（Fu）. In English, it's usualy translated to Happiness,blessing, lucky, however it is a character hard to explain even in chinese. It covers history, stories, literature, spirit, traditions and so many abstract meanings.  

《礼记》有曰：“福者，百顺之名也。”也就是说，“福”有顺利、诸事如意的含义。《尚书·洪范》曰：“五福：一曰寿，二曰富，三曰康宁，四曰攸好德，五曰考终命。”“五福”是多层面的福观念，以贯穿一生的幸福为目标，讲求长寿、富裕、安康、有德行，老年无疾而终，认为这样的人生才是完美的。韩非子曰：“全寿富贵之谓福。”这是长寿加富贵的福观念。宋朝著名的文学家和政治家欧阳修在《纪德陈情上致政太傅杜相公》一诗中表达了他对福德看法：“事国一心勤以瘁，还家五福寿而康。”可见，他认为五福的核心是长寿、健康。盛行于明清时期的“五福捧寿”，图案为五只蝙蝠环绕寿字飞舞，彰显以长寿为中心的五福观念。

The paragraph above is the short brief that conclude the history of "fu"'s meanings. I translated several: In LI JI, it says "Fu" means everything will go well; the second one means there are five elements ： long life, be rich, good health, good manner, dead without any illness.

I take this example because I'd like to say it's actually a character you have to feel.

This is my understanding of "FU" by using man and woman symbols.

So currently I'm thinking about how about I collect chinese people's understanding of this character, I will give them two stander symbols(Man and Woman) and let them use those to explain what is "fu" in their minds, of course they can change the size and color of them , and sure they can add more things or maybe conbine those tow like that transsexual sign, whatever they want.

Not just this character, there are a lot of chinese characters hard to translate in languages.

like the next one as follow:

         
This word has been translated to "feelings" in google, as for chinese, it's more than this. I don't know how to translate, I really don't know, that's why I expect other people's explanations. 

What I want to explore is can designer use visual language to describe a abstract thing. How do people read visual languages?