With three of the same Chinese character ren meaning “person”, appearing in an overlapping pattern as its main component part, the University emblem carries the implication that education should stick to the principle of putting people first and that in the pursuit of learning one should always bear in mind Confucius’ teaching: “Where there are three men walking together, one of them is bound to teach me something.” And the compact design of the emblem’s main part, with lines and dots linked together, conveys another moral meaning that education is, in essence, “a marriage, overlap and extension of both humanistic and scientific spirits.” Besides, the brilliant blue colour, with different shades and gradations, ingeniously illustrates the well-known classical Chinese saying: “Blue comes from the indigo plant but is bluer than the plant itself”, a saying metaphorically used to express the earnest wish that in the future “the pupil would surpass the master.”