Kanji : It is comics !

To understand and memorize Kanji, you must "look at", observe them carefully. Before the normalization of Kan era, which imposed the strait - or at least large rediuses of curvature, the drawings were very descriptive.

For instance, look at the bird

or the child, the person, the hands.

Then, the styles continued to evolve.
Here are four ways to calligraphy the Kanji "Turtle" - including the "regular" form used in the texts nowadays : the Kanji Turtle