FLAGS WITH SUNS
China (sun associated with the Emperor);Republic of China (Taiwan); Japan (Land of the rising sun).
Uruguay, rwanda, namibia, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kurdistan, the Philippines.
Flag of China.
Red is a lucky colour in the Chinese culture.
Suns or stars? Usually the sun is large and solo. The stars and small in groups, lines, or circles.
FLAGS WITH MOONS
The moon is association with the empress in Chinese culture. Yet we in the west talk to children about the man in the moon, which is handily alliterative in English. (The American man on the moon came later.)
Flag of Pakistan
White and Green.
Flag of Turkey
Red with the white moon.
FLAGS WITH STARS
New Zealand
Currently, May 2020, the New Zealand flag has the union Jack and the four stars of the constellation you see in the sky.
Australia
Flag of New Zealand
Flag of Australia
Australia
I used to confuse the flags of Australia and New Zealand. Until I looked at them and saw that Australia has a extra, bigger star.
Israel
Israel has a star, too. The star of David, (in Hebrew called Magen David, David sometimes pronounced Dovid) which Muslims know as the Seal of Solomon. (You can see it on a building in India.)
One story goes that the six point star was an ancient lucky charm symbol designed to show the star trapping the devil or evil in the points. A lucky star! Lucky stars? Influencing us? The idea of auspicious days for births and wedding is still strong in the East (Asia, especially China, Hong Kong and Singapore).
However, in the West only for newspaper horoscopes and the superstitions and those who follow astronomy. However, we still habitually hear and use the phrase in English without really thinking about it, 'thank your lucky stars'.
Star on the flag of Israel
Useful Websites
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-national-flags-feature-an-the-sun-in-their-design.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_Symbol_of_the_National_Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember: tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
China (sun associated with the Emperor);Republic of China (Taiwan); Japan (Land of the rising sun).
Uruguay, rwanda, namibia, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kurdistan, the Philippines.
Flag of China.
Red is a lucky colour in the Chinese culture.
Suns or stars? Usually the sun is large and solo. The stars and small in groups, lines, or circles.
FLAGS WITH MOONS
The moon is association with the empress in Chinese culture. Yet we in the west talk to children about the man in the moon, which is handily alliterative in English. (The American man on the moon came later.)
Flag of Pakistan
White and Green.
Red with the white moon.
FLAGS WITH STARS
New Zealand
Currently, May 2020, the New Zealand flag has the union Jack and the four stars of the constellation you see in the sky.
Australia
Australia
I used to confuse the flags of Australia and New Zealand. Until I looked at them and saw that Australia has a extra, bigger star.
Israel
Israel has a star, too. The star of David, (in Hebrew called Magen David, David sometimes pronounced Dovid) which Muslims know as the Seal of Solomon. (You can see it on a building in India.)
One story goes that the six point star was an ancient lucky charm symbol designed to show the star trapping the devil or evil in the points. A lucky star! Lucky stars? Influencing us? The idea of auspicious days for births and wedding is still strong in the East (Asia, especially China, Hong Kong and Singapore).
However, in the West only for newspaper horoscopes and the superstitions and those who follow astronomy. However, we still habitually hear and use the phrase in English without really thinking about it, 'thank your lucky stars'.
Star on the flag of Israel
Useful Websites
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-national-flags-feature-an-the-sun-in-their-design.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_Symbol_of_the_National_Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember: tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
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