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示 might depict 丅 an altar with dripping sacrifices on it. 丅 is how it was written on oracle bones. | 示 might depict 丅 an altar with dripping sacrifices on it. 丅 is how it was written on oracle bones. | ||
“Prognostic, presage; indicate, exhibit, proclaim, declare, inform — the scholastic commentators explain: 二 (i.e. 上) heaven and (the strokes below:) sun, moon and stars! Occurs as a signific in characters bearing on religion, rites, etc.” —Karlgren. | “Prognostic, presage; indicate, exhibit, proclaim, declare, inform — the scholastic commentators explain: | ||
二 (i.e. 上) heaven and (the strokes below:) sun, moon and stars! Occurs as a signific in characters bearing on religion, rites, etc.” —Karlgren. | |||
As a component, 示 is often written 礻 as in 神 shén ‘spirit’. It is not the same as 衤(衣 yī ‘clothing’). | As a component, 示 is often written 礻 as in 神 shén ‘spirit’. It is not the same as 衤(衣 yī ‘clothing’). | ||
113th of the 214 radicals. | 113th of the 214 radicals. | ||
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