unfold, expand
展 centers on opening something out so it becomes larger or more visible: unfolding a cloth, expanding a plan, or spreading out for display.
展 combines 尸 (a person or body) with a lower component that likely represented clothing or spreading out, suggesting the act of unfolding or stretching something out.
The top 尸 looks like a person bending over, and the lower part resembles a piece of cloth being spread out. Imagine someone unfolding a large cloth to expand it fully.
For テン, picture unfolding a tent: tent -> テン, and as you spread the fabric, the tent expands.
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development; evolution; progression; unfolding; (plot) twist
exhibition; display
development; growth; expansion; extension; flourishing
exhibition; exhibit
progress; development
view; outlook; prospect
exhibit; display
exhibition; showing; displaying; putting on display
solo exhibition; one-man exhibition; one-woman exhibition
exhibition of pictures; painting exhibition; art exhibition
expansion; extension
Japan Fine Arts Exhibition; JFAE; Nitten Exhibition
Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition)
art exhibition
inline expansion
expanding into a chain (e.g. store, hotel); development of chain stores
Taylor expansion
virial expansion
filename expansion
Fourier expansion