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The symbols, which arrow point four directions are used for North,
South, West, East; also four seasons.
(四方を指す矢記号は、東西南北や四季を表す文字にも使います。)
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North (北), 
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South (南), 
: West
(西), 
: East (東)
In this case, the four arrow-bases don't mean 'up, down, in and out, and the
circle doesn't mean 'round/globe.' 
is to show an abstract concept, and these symbols are pointing which
direction in this globe.
Maybe the people in the southern sphere likes the opposite setting. But since
the major maps in the past history have set the north as above. So EL
followed the rule. For setting an abstract concept, we sometimes need
arbitrary ruling. However after setting (North),
other direction symbols are automatically understandable. One of the middle
directions is shown a combination of the two symbols that it is between. For
more applicable concepts, such as northern latitude and north pole, see the
circle page or a direction basis page in the main
dictionary.
(大円は、丸や球の象形記号であるほか、抽象概念にも用います。地球上の方向を共通に認識できるために円と上向きの矢の組み合わせを北として恣意的に設定しました。南半球の人には不満かもしれませんが、歴史上の北を上とする地図の優先からの設定です。四方の中間の方角は、図のようにそれをはさむ２方向を重ねて示します。にさらに「極地」を重ねて「北極」、「度合い」の記号を重ねれば「北緯」・・など応用文字が広がります。)
{
nature/自然, 
time/時}
means a season, and four seasons are shown by the combination of a direction
arrow-basis and this symbol:
: spring (春), 
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summer (夏), 
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fall (秋), 
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winter (冬)
The reasons of these settings has to be found through common feelings seeing
these pictures. These are for the area having four seasons, and which month
they belong to does not matter.
(自然と時を表す記号を重ねると「季節」を表します。これに上下内外の記号をそれぞれ重ねると左図の意味で四季の文字になります。漢字の趣には不足かもしれませんが、一度憶えると忘れないでしょう？自然や時の記号には自分の思いを描ける空間が感じられるので、抽象記号は心で自由に膨らませてください。)