魅力

mèilì · HSK 7

charisma

🧲✨ 魅 charm/enchant + 力 power = the power to charm = charisma

力 — pictograph of a plow or arm muscle
力 originated as a pictograph of an ancient plow, the main tool requiring physical exertion in early agriculture. Some scholars also see it as a flexed arm showing muscle. From this concrete image it broadened to mean 'strength, power, force, effort'.

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