影
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)