幕

Mu means curtain. let’s break it down! we see jin 巾 below which is a pictogram of a cloth on a rack. The rest of the character is simply “mo” 莫 a compound character which means “not yet”; mo is an ideogram of the great big 大 sun 日 which is still below the line of the grass 艹 i.e. the dawn, the sun has NOT YET risen. So this is “not yet” “curtain” i.e. a stage curtain, but also a drape. Here in 字幕 it is a curtain of text i.e. subtitles. 字 of course means glyph character hieroglyph i.e. the zi of hanzi. It’s the image of a child beneath a roof with a book on his mind which s/he is learning to read (which is why 字 and 学 xue study are related glyphs)U

Ds Drawn Strange
Intelligible
Markings
Underneath SUBTITLES 字幕

Muslin,
Uniform, CURTAIN 幕

莫 布 Mo bU MU 幕

Grass+Sun+Cloth=CURTAIN