操心
cāo xīn · HSK 7
to worry about
😟 cao sounds like COW + xin means heart — a cow on your heart weighs you down
操 means to handle or manage, 心 means heart. Together: your heart is handling too much, so you worry. A COW sitting on your heart-center captures that heavy, burdened feeling of fretting.
心 — pictograph of a heart with chambers and aorta
心 is a pictograph showing a stylized heart, with strokes representing the organ's chambers and the aorta at the top. Originally meaning the physical heart, it broadened to cover mind, feelings, and intentions, since ancient Chinese thought located thinking and emotion in the heart.