WHOLE CHARACTER
王
king; monarch (国王,王朝); the best of its kind; a champion (山大王,王牌); the Wang family name
王 is the king: 国王 'king', 王子 'prince', and 王牌 'the trump card'.
Taught as one complete written unit. ZDIC: 会意,从一、从土 in the old account — shown whole here, with no pieces drawn, so the old claim stays a cited story rather than a drawn analysis.