东部时间

• 東(east; rising sun behind tree)ASSOCIATIVE

The sun rising behind a tree trunk points to the East.

• 咅(sound reading (radical/section))PHONETIC
• 阝(village; region)RADICAL

A section of land divided by distinct sounds becomes a region's administrative division.

• 日(sun; day)RADICAL
• 寸(inch; unit of measurement)PHONETIC

Time flows like the sun moving inch by inch across the sky.

• 門(door; leaf)RADICAL
• 日(sun; light)ASSOCIATIVE

A beam of sunlight shining through a crack in the door creates the empty space in between.