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Bright

Bright, a limited handmade art print designed and screen printed by Levi, visualized the symbolic meaning of a logogram - 明 (Bright).

明 (Bright) is a Han character, formed by two Han characters: 日 (sun) and 月 (moon). When the sun☀️ comes across the moon🌙, these two pictograms join together and become an ideogram, which implies bright✨.

After more than 3000 years in Sino-culture, this logographic character got developed to current state from oracle bone script. (This development process is shown on the low part of the print, 7 versions of this character, left to right.)

Following specification is about this Han Character from Wiki:
[Translingual]
Han character - 明 (Pronunciation: ming)

[Glyph origin]
Ideogrammic compound: 日 (“sun”) + 月 (“moon”) – the sun just rising and the moon not yet set – dawn (天明). Alternatively, it may be interpreted as two bright celestial bodies – bright. This form was already found in the oracle bone script and was prevalent throughout the eras.

[Pronunciation]
Cantonese: ming4

[Definitions]
1. bright; light; brilliant
2. clear; limpid
3. tomorrow
4. next; following
5. to understand