A pictograph of a person seen from the side — the two crossing strokes are the legs in mid-stride, the apex is the torso. As a left-side radical it compresses to
亻 (vertical person) and powers a huge family of person/social characters:
你,
他,
们,
来,
信,
仁,
休,
仔. One of the most fundamental glyphs in the script.
