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7-9

daybreak

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

shu3 shǔ

Meaning


Primary

daybreak

Alternatives

dawn

Mnemonic


[shu-] Sherlock Holmes is in the [3] basement of the [-_] house where he and his elder lay in a hammock 罒 net that hangs from the bare cement ceiling. They smoke their pipes and look out the small basement window at the early 曙 daybreak 日 sun whose rays of light penetrate through their thick pipe smoke. Sherlock thinks seeing 曙 daybreak each day, even if from the bathroom window, is one of the elementary pleasures of life. His elder, who is just an older version of him, agrees.

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