The story of 影

shadow

影 is composed of 景(view, landscape) and 彡(hair). 景 is the picture is a tall and big building with the sun hanging above, so a shadow of the shadow is casted, shadow is grey and dark, elusive and unreal like hair, so 彡 is used to represent shadow.

Vocabulary of 影

  • 倒影 (inverted image
  • reversed image)
  • 電影 (movie)
  • 剪影 (paper-cut silhouette)

Classification

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