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黎明

lí míng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

黎明 (lí míng) means "dawn; daybreak". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

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)

Where 黎明 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · lèng–lǐ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lí míng correctly.
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