显

Top radical 日 (sun) depicts daylight breaking over things — what the sun illuminates becomes visible. 显 means 'visible, manifest, conspicuous', and the sun radical embodies that core image: things become 显 when sunlight falls on them. Same radical groups 显 with 明 (bright), 暗 (dim), 晴 (clear) — the family of visibility states.

Bottom 业 in this position is the simplified silhouette of the original 㬎 phonetic (silk-threads-spread-out-in-sunlight). Modern PRC reform reshaped that bottom unit into the simpler 业 form. The compound now reads as 'sun + scaffolding' = things laid out in sunlight, made visible — preserving the core 'show, manifest' meaning even after simplification.