Please translate it into English :Interesting Chinese characters

杰 ，
意思是杰出、非常优秀的
下面的四个点意思是火
上面的木字，代表大火燃烧后存留的少量的树，
这个字的意思是：大火洗礼仍然生长的树木，生命力非常，引申为杰出

杰 means outstanding or excellent. [also to mean "heroic"].  The bottom four dots represent fire.  The top is the character for "tree" to represent what is left of the tree is being burnt.  Taken together the meaning is to: Even after the fires had caused destruction, the trees will grow back to demonstate the power of life and this extends to the meaning of "outstanding".

However, it is a nice story but the actual meaning is more gruesome!  The traditional form is 傑 which is composed of two parts.  The left side shows the character for man.  The right side itself is another composite character 桀 which means "to oppose", "to deviate" and "to be contrary".  Thus to those who oppose the norms becomes "outstanding", standing out apart from the normal to be noticed by others.  Thus those who oppose the ruling (referring to tranny). 桀  is the phonetic component.  For those who are into history, this is the name for the king of the Hsia Dynasty, the cruel tryant, 夏桀.  He was overthrown by 成湯 of the Shang Dynasty.  Hence the character is very meaningful, "the one who rose against 桀" is outstanding.

On the same note, the character 桀 has also an interesting composition.  This has three parts, the top left 夕 (evening) is actually a shortened way to represent person with possibly in shackles and the top right is another form of a inverted form (又) for person chasing.  Thus upon capture they are hung from a tree.  This character thus come to mean "if you oppose the ruling, you will die by hanging"!