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爔

Character · Variant · VerbTraditional晞

same as 曦; dry in sun

Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma

Meanings

2 senses · 4 examples
1.

variant

same as 曦 (sunlight, dawn, morning light)

literary

Literary variant of 曦, used in classical texts to denote sunlight or dawn.

Xī晞
fà发
yáng阳
ē阿
 ，
zhuó濯
zú足
cāng沧
làng浪
 。

He dried his hair in the morning sun on the southern slope and washed his feet in the Canglang River.

Dōng东
fāng方
wèi未
xī晞
 ，
dào倒
cháng裳
wǎng往
yíng迎
 。

Before the eastern sky had yet lit with dawn, he put on his clothes inside-out to go greet them.

2.

verb

to dry in the sun; to expose to sunlight

literary

Original meaning of the character, describing the action of drying something in sunlight.

Xī晞
fà发
chù处
 ，
sōng松
fēng风
mǎn满
bìn鬓
 。

Where he dried his hair in the sun, the pine wind filled his temples.

Bái白
lù露
wèi未
xī晞
 ，
qī萋
qī萋
qī萋
xī兮
 。

The white dew has not yet dried, so lush and dense.