暹 rise, advance, go forward, sunrise 日,曰,進,

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暹

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セン
SE　N

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日

ニチ,ジツ,ひ,～び,～か Sun, day, bright and flashing, brilliant, heat, hot

　CIRCLE DIVIDED
…or: TWO STACKED ORIFICES
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

進

シン,すす advance, proceed, forward motion, progress, go into, come into, enter

　STEPS, FOOT MOTION, DRAGGING FEET ACROSS A SURFACE with PRIMATE MATING STANCE OF MALE HUMAN, PERSON PALMING PRICK
　

Meanings of elements

SUN and FORWARD MOTION
…or: TONGUING MOUTH and ADVANCE, PROCEED, PROGRESS

While the Sun certainly advances with apparent forward motion from the vantage point of somewhere on the Earth's surface at SUNRISE, it also does so at sunset, throughout the daytime, and all night, too (as long as the Earth continues its rotation). Causing to RISE, and to ADVANCE, PROCEED FORWARD might better be explained with elements literally as「walking motion during a mating dance, courtship display」before a「tonguing mouth」that causes a red, round orb to rise. Some sources associate with glyph with old Siam and Thailand, perhaps for this reason.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: sunrise
Japanese EDRDG: sunrise
Unihan extended: rise; advance, go forward

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.