blossom, bloom
咲 centers on flowers opening: blossoming and blooming. It captures the visible moment when a flower unfolds.
咲 combines 口 (mouth) with 关, a component that likely contributes the sound and is associated with opening. The character expresses the idea of a flower opening its mouth-like petals.
The left side is a mouth 口, and the right side 关 looks like a flower bud opening. Picture a flower's petals parting like a mouth to bloom.
For ショウ, imagine a flower show where every blossom opens on display: show -> ショウ, and the flowers bloom for the audience.
to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open
to make bloom
blooming late; flowering late; blossoming late
to be in full bloom; to blossom in full glory; to be in fullness of bloom
comeback (e.g. in business); reinstatement
to bloom in profusion
to come back; to bloom a second time
early blooming; early flowering
off-season flowering
double blossom
to flourish briefly (esp. before retiring or stopping); to have a day in the limelight; to have a stint of success
second blooming
half-florescent; half-bloomed
to bloom all over; to bloom in riotous profusion
to be in full bloom
to begin to bloom; to come out
variegated flowering
to begin to blossom
to be in beautiful full bloom
to begin blooming