The name "李亚鹏" is formed from three individual characters: "李" is a pictophonetic character composed of the radical "木" meaning "tree" and "子" meaning "child", historically associated with plum trees; "亚" is a simplified character derived from an ancient pictograph representing order or secondary position; "鹏" is a compound character combining "朋" for its phonetic sound with "鸟", the radical for "bird", to denote the mythical roc. These characters are combined in sequence to create a personal name.