晦朔
Chinese
dark; night; unlucky | beginning; first day of lunar month | ||
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simp. and trad. (晦朔) |
晦 | 朔 |
Pronunciation
Noun
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
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.- 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. [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.
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