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Pictogram. In the Oracle Bone Script and Small Seal Script, it depicts the sun with a horizontal symbol in the middle as sunshine.
Chinese characters having the radical 日 are often related to the sun or time. For example: shí-时-time, zǎo-早-morning, wǎn-晚-night, etc.
日，象形字，甲骨文和小篆的字形像太阳,中间一横表示太阳的光。
以日为偏旁部首的字大多与太阳或时间有关，比如：时、早、晚等。
