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Symbol 42:4

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42:4 · An ancient ideogram. When used in the earliest Chinese writing, this meant the sunrise, a new day. Much later in Western astronomy it had the same meaning but was also used to denote the lower edge of the disc of the sun. The horizontal line signifies the ground, the horizon, and 2609 is the universal ideogram for the sun.