xiǎo

dawn

daybreak; to know; to let sb know; to make explicit

sun (日) + phonetic (尧) = dawn; to know

The sun radical anchors the meaning of dawn and daylight. 尧 contributes mainly the sound xiǎo, not the meaning.

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A legendary sage-emperorPhonetic
The sunSemantic

他不得这件事有多重要。

tā bù xiǎo de zhè jiàn shì yǒu duō zhòng yào。

he doesn't know how important this matter is.

你得把规则讲清楚,让大家都得。

nǐ děi bǎ guī zé jiǎng qīng chǔ,ràng dà jiā dōu xiǎo de。

you need to explain the rules clearly so that everyone knows.

Words with 晓

通晓

tōng xiǎo

proficient (in sth)

分晓

fēn xiǎo

the result (becomes apparent)

刘晓波

liú xiǎo bō

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010

报晓

bào xiǎo

to herald the break of day

天晓得

tiān xiǎo de

Heaven knows!

家喻户晓

jiā yù hù xiǎo

understood by everyone (idiom); well known

已见分晓

yǐ jiàn fēn xiǎo

the result becomes apparent

户告人晓

hù gào rén xiǎo

to make known to every household (idiom); to disseminate widely

拂晓

fú xiǎo

daybreak

揭晓

jiē xiǎo

to announce publicly

晓以大义

xiǎo yǐ dà yì

to reason with sb

晓喻

xiǎo yù

to inform

More characters with 日