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Chinese
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dark; night; unlucky
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beginning; first day of lunar month
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| trad. (晦朔)
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晦
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朔
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| simp. #(晦朔)
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晦
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朔
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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晦
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朔
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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huì
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shuò
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xwojH ›
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‹ sræwk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m̥ˁək-s/
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/*s-ŋrak/
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| English
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last day of a moon; dark
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1st day of month
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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晦
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朔
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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9315
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9468
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Phonetic
component
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母
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屰
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Rime
group
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之
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鐸
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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朔
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Old
Chinese
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/*hmɯːs/
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/*sŋraːɡ/
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Noun
晦朔
- (literary) last and first days of the lunar month
- (literary, obsolete) lunar month
- (literary) morning and evening
朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]- From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Zhāojūn bù zhī huìshuò, huìgū bù zhī chūnqiū, cǐ xiǎonián yě.
- The mushroom of a morning does not know (what takes place between) the beginning and end of a month; the short-lived cicada does not know (what takes place between) the spring and autumn. These are instances of a short term of life.