映
부수: 日
획수: 9획
映 has the meanings ‘to shine’, ‘movie’ and ‘reflect’.
映 = 日 + 央
X = semantic + phonetic
• 日 depicts the sun and represents ‘shining’ and ‘illumination’.
• 央 is used for its sound. It depicts a person with their head in a ‘pillory’ – a wooden headlock used for punishment.
Some scholars suggest 央 (centre) combined with 日 (light) has the associated sense of ‘shining brightly’ (the centre being the strongest point of a flame).
Evolution:
映 = ’to shine’ ➔ ’to project images (from film)’
映 = ’to shine’ ➔ ’to reflect light’
Mnemonic
Imagine the stereotypical film projector shining light 日 from its centre 央 to create images on the silver screen.
Vocab
| 映寫 | 영사 | projection |
| 映寫機 | 영사기 | projector |
| 映像 | 영상 | picture, image |
| 映畵 | 영화 | movie |
| 映畵館 | 영화관 | movie theater |
| 映畵祭 | 영화제 | movie festival |
| 映畵界 | 영화계 | movie circles |
| 反映 | 반영 | reflection |
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Bibliography
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 629]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 813]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 映, 日, 央].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 830]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.