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  pictograph of wang (king)

 

China

The Chinese character wang () consists of three horizontal strokes and one vertical.

 

It is a pictograph in which the top horizontal stroke represents ‘heaven’, the bottom stroke ‘earth’ and the middle stroke the ‘emperor’ or ‘king’, as the liaison between heaven and earth, a task symbolized by the vertical stroke.

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