显然
xiǎnrán · HSK 3
evidently
💡 显 = visible/show + 然 = -ly/so → visibly so = evidently
显 carries the sense of showing or being apparent, while 然 is a classical suffix meaning 'so' or '-ly' (as in 当然 of course, 忽然 suddenly). Together: 'apparently so' — evidently, clearly, manifestly.
显 — sun 日 + head/page 頁 (simplified from 顯)
Originally 顯, showing a head 頁 looking at silk threads under the sun 日, suggesting things made visible or apparent. The meaning extended from 'clearly seen' to 'manifest, evident, prominent.' Simplified to 显 by reducing the silk-and-head element to a small mark beneath 日.