示

The glyph denotes the transition from the hidden or private to the manifest across three primary registers:

• Demonstrative: To show, point out, exhibit, or display.
• Directive/Official: To notify, announce, or make known (e.g., a decree or official policy).
• Revelatory/Divinatory: To manifest a sign, omen, or divine will; the process of the unseen becoming visible through ritual or supernatural means.

Primarily transitive, typically moving information or an object from concealment into the open. In certain contexts, it may function as "appearing" or "becoming manifest."

In official or directive contexts, the meaning of "making known" often shifts closer to "instructing" than simple exhibition.

Semantic variant: U+793B (scribal or regional variation; lexical range remains unchanged).

Originates from the image of an altar. It serves as Radical 113, anchoring a wide array of terms related to spiritual and ritual realms (e.g., 神, 福).