Free Online Kanji Etymology Dictionary
(A comprehensive Free Online Kanji Etymology Dictionary for the Web)
An Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Character Interpretations
By Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto
– Covering more than 6,500 Chinese characters as used in Japan –
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Kanji Search Results
日 (4)
ニチ ; ジツ
か; ひ
S/B 
S/B is a pictograph of the sun → day (← appearance of the sun ushering in a new day). As with 熱, the heat of the sun was understood in terms of softening objects and/or reducing them in size.
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