The Chinese Radical: 朔


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new moon    朔

Explanation first day of lunar month

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JLPT HSK 4
to model (a figure) in clay

Top: new moon, 1.day in lunar calendar (The disobedient [=A plant's shoot that grows crooked] moon is not shining at new moon), bottom: earth
At new moon take earth (clay) for modelling.
JLPT no HSK
to go upstream, to trace the source

Left: water , right: new moon (The disobedient moon is not shining at new moon) [disobedient = A plant's shoot that grows crooked is disobedient.]
(The moon is between sun and earth and can cause spring tides:) The water at new moon can flow upstream.
JLPT no HSK
new moon, beginning, first day of lunar month
shuò
Left: disobedient (A plant's shoot that grows crooked is disobedient.), right: moon
If the 'disobedient' moon does not shine, it is new moon.

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