This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

The place 阝 of the sun 昜; compare 阴

  • 陽 the male principle; bright, sunny; clear, lit, open yáng
    • 阝 place, town, city yì
    • 昜 bright, glorious; to expand, to open up yáng
      • 旦 dawn; morning; day dàn
        • 日 sun; day; daytime rì
        • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
      • 勿 must not, do not; without, never wù

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