Amazing Chinese Characters (81) Flash - 闪

We learnt Door, its shell bone script is

In side the Door is home or courtyard.

What if we put something inside the Door? You get a new character.

Let's see the big seal script for character Flash

which is formed by a Door and a Person. A person inside or under the door means Flash. Why?

I should point out that you can't think that the Person is sitting inside, what you should think is that people saw a person who flashed through the door gap.

In comparison with big seal script Prison

which is a person in a box or small room. The room or box has no gap, an isolated place.

The small seal script for Flash is

similar to its big seal script.

Its clerical script is

still similar.

Its current standard printing script for traditional character is

閃

same as the clerical script.

Its current standard printing script for simplified character is

闪

Because the simplified Door 门 is not pictography, the 闪 is not as good as traditional character 閃 inpictography feature.  

It Pinyin is "Shan3".

闪 is used with 电（Electricity, Post 247) to form a combination 闪电, means Lightning.