| 日 |
Pictogram (象形): the SUN. |
| 旦 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): the sun (日) appearing over the horizon (一). |
| 旧 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): a line 丨 in front of 日, indicating "the days before". |
| (舊) |
Phono-semantic compound (形声). |
| 旨 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 匕 ("spoon") with 日 (pictogram of a mouth); a man tasting. |
| 早 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 日 (“sun”) with 甲 (“first”); when the sun first rises. |
| 旮 |
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| 旯 |
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| 时 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 寸 ("hand") with 日; to point at the sun, as in timekeeping. |
| (時) |
Phono-semantic compound (形声). |
| 昆 |
Pictogram (象形): the body and legs of an insect. |
| 昊 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 日 with 天 ("heaven"). |
| 昌 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 日 (“sun”) with 口 (“mouth”). During the Warring States Period, 口 developed into 曰. |
| 明 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 日 (“sun”) with 月 (“moon”); the sun just rising and the moon not yet set; dawn. |
| 昏 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): abbreviated 氐 ("lower") with 日 (“sun”). |
| 易 |
Pictogram (象形): a filled container.
Phonetically borrowed character (假借): original form of 賜. |
| 昔 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 𡿧 (“disaster; floods”) with 日 (“sun”); the flood submerging the sun; the former times. |
| 昙 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意): 日 with 云, presumably “sun behind clouds”. |
| (曇) |
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| 昝 |
Ideogrammic compound (会意). Those speaking 曰 in this place 处. |