黑色星期五

• 黑(black; dark color (depicting a face blackened by smoke and fire))ASSOCIATIVE

A face covered by smoke and fire symbolizes the dark black color.

• ⺈(knife; variant form)ASSOCIATIVE
• 巴(long for; cling to; stick tight)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Beauty as sharp as a keen blade makes people stick fast and unable to look away.

• 其(that; that one)PHONETIC
• 月(moon; month)RADICAL

Watch the moon's phases wax and wane to count periods of time.

• 二(two; two horizontal strokes)RADICAL
• ？(diagonal stroke indicating the number five)ASSOCIATIVE

A number carved between two horizontal lines resembles the ancient finger-counting method.