Memory phrase for the Kanji: 曙


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Meaning

daybreak, dawn, the dawn of a new epoch (metaphor)

Pronunciation

shǔ

Explanation

Left: sun 日, right: government office 署 (The eyes 罒 above the persons 者 are a government office.) [see the similarity to: heat 暑]

Mnemonic


 
When the sun 日 is still flat without heat 暑 (this sun 日 is 90°-rotated 罒 over a person 者), we are in the dawn.

Radicals

sun, dayThis radical was developed from a circle with a central dot as the image of the sun. As you can hardly draw circles or dots with a brush, it became the current rectangular shape.
netsometimes simplified to 罒.
person
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 Vocabulary

曙光 shǔ guāng  dawn; fig. the dawn of a new era
曙光 shǔ guāng  
曙光 shǔ guāng  
曙光 shǔ guāng  


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