天光

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Chinese

day; sky; heaven light; ray; bright
simp. and trad.
(天光)
Literally: “brightening of the sky”.

Pronunciation


Noun

天光

  1. sunlight
  2. colour of the sky
    天光發白天光发白  ―  Chuāng wài tiānguāng fābái.  ―  Outside the window, the sky becomes white. (i.e. the day dawns).
  3. morning; daytime
  4. (Liancheng Hakka, Huizhou, Hainanese, Wenzhounese) breakfast

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Verb

天光

  1. (dialectal) to break (of dawn)
    天光 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    zou6 dou3 tin1 gwong1 dou1 zou6 m4 jyun4
    to work all night and still not be done (literally, “to work until dawn and still not be done”)
    天光 [Cantonese]  ―  waan4-2 tin1 gwong1   ―  to play all night (literally, “to play until dawn”)
    天光𰥛天光 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 gaau3 fan3 tin1 gwong1   ―  to sleep all the way till dawn

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