时间线

• 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.

• 糸(thread; silk)RADICAL
• 泉(stream; water)PHONETIC

A thin thread flows like a small stream running long and continuously.