Saturday, October 10, 2026

Amazing Chinese Characters (822) Sunlight during sunrise -  昜

The shell bone script of character for the Sunlight during Sunrise 

The top is character Sunrise - 旦 (Post 100), the bottom is vertical bar, which someone thinks to be a tree. I think it means a high position where the sun rises high over the horizon. 

The bronze script of character for the Sunlight during Sunrise 


The top is character Sunrise, the bottom three left falling lines are the sunlight, which clarify that the character means the sunlight in the sunrise, not the sun itself. It is not clear in shell bone script.

The small seal script of character for the Sunlight during Sunrise

The top is the character Sunrise, the bottom is the sunlight. 

The clerical script of character for the Sunlight during Sunrise

The top is the character Sunrise, the bottom is changed a lot in comparison with small seal script, difficult to explain the meaning of each stroke, but still similar to old scripts.

The song typeface of character for the Sunlight during Sunrise

Similar to small seal script.

The pinyin of the character is Yang2.

The character is not used along, but exist in many compound characters.

 

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