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new moon 朔
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first day of lunar month
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to model (a figure) in clay
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Top: new moon, 1.day in lunar calendar 朔 (The disobedient 屰 moon 月 is not shining at new moon) [屰 = A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked], bottom: earth 土
(Here see: "disobedient" as “copied”) We create a copied body from earth (=clay) when modeling.
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溯
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to go upstream, to trace the source
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Left: water 氵, right: new moon 朔 (The disobedient 屰 moon 月 is not shining at new moon) [disobedient 屰 = A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 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.
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朔
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JLPT no HSK |
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| new moon, beginning, first day of lunar month
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Left: disobedient 屰 (A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked is disobedient.), right: moon 月
If the 'disobedient' moon does not shine, it is new moon.
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