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黎明

lí míng

HSK 6 2-character word

What 黎明 means

1. dawn; daybreak

The characters in 黎明

• 黎lí(literary) black; dark; many
• 明míngbright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear

Example sentences

• 黎明时我们必须起床。
  Límíng shí wǒmen bìxū qǐchuáng.
  We must get up at dawn.
• 他们在黎明前控制住了火势。
  Tāmen zài límíng qián kòngzhì zhù le huǒshì.
  It was before dawn that they got the fire under control.
• 我们黎明时起床以避开交通堵塞。
  Wǒmen límíng shí qǐchuáng yǐ bìkāi jiāotōngdǔsè.
  We got up at dawn to avoid a traffic jam.

Words starting with 黎明

• 黎明时分lí míng shí fēndaybreak; at the crack of dawn
• 黎明前的黑暗lí míng qián de hēi àndarkness comes before dawn; things can only get better (idiom)