晦朔

Chinese

		dark; night; unlucky	beginning; first day of lunar month
simp. and trad. (晦朔)		晦	朔

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤək-s s-ŋrak/
(Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːs sŋraːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	晦	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huì	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ xwoj^H ›	‹ sræwk ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁək-s/	/*s-ŋrak/
English	last day of a moon; dark	1st day of month
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

晦朔

(literary) last and first days of the lunar month
(literary, obsolete) lunar month
(literary) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
- 朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Zhāojūn bù zhī huìshuò, huìgū bù zhī chūnqiū, cǐ xiǎonián yě. [Pinyin]
  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.