Translation of this symbol / word?!

[CitricSquid]

Hi there, i was wondering, what does the symbol in the image bloew mean/say. I am confused. Google has yielded no results and this place seemed as good as any to ask.

[againstwind]

It looks like a traditional character 昇（sheng1) meaning to rise or to raise in general .

Its simple form is 升.

But I'm not quite sure for it, for there is a point at the right side. What's that?

[Ding Yiyi]

I think it could be 旲 with pronunciations of (tai2) or (ying3) but none of the dictionaries I possess have any definition for it.

Wenlin has an entry, but says that it has no record of any single-syllable entries, nor any multi-syllabic ones either. I also found it by inputting it into Plecodict and the only dictionary that had any idea of what it might be is the Unihan database.

I wonder if it is used in Cantonese, Japanese, Korean or any of the other myriad local languages?

Hope this helps anyone who can actually figure out where this character might be used/the definition

[gato]

It could be 昦 hào

古同“昊” (hào) 。

But since it's just one isolated character, without any context, it's hard to tell.

You can take a look at this list of possible characters:

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/UnihanRSIndex.pl?radical=72&minstrokes=4&maxstrokes=6

[HashiriKata]

But I'm not quite sure for it, for there is a point at the right side. What's that?

As a guess, it's the calligrapher's sense of balance.

(PS: My instinct also tells me that this work is by a Japanese, rather than Chinese.)

[Koneko]

Agree with HashiriKata. Purely for aesthetics reason, maybe?

K.

[Ding Yiyi]

if the dot is purely for aesthetics then it might simply be 早 which means "early"

[CitricSquid]

Thankyou, so much againstwind!

The answer was Raise. Thankyou

[Koneko]

Apart from aesthetics, I personally think that 升 is more meaningful than 早.

K.

[trien27]

昇 is definitely correct as told by againstwind. It means "sunrise". The character below,meaning "to rise", gave the pronunciation of "sheng". Both characters are pronunced the same: "sheng".

The script used is caoshu/grass script.

Notice the stroke order is different than kaishu script. The dot is there mostly for aesthetics purposes. This is Chinese calligraphy on white paper using red ink. In calligraphy, caoshu is used most of the time for its fluidity, written with one stroke of the brush rather than the many strokes involved in kaishu. Most of the time in calligraphy, black ink is used on white paper for contrast.