朔
shuò

first day of lunar month

朔 shuò
north noun
the northern direction or the north

凛冽的朔风呼啸而过，卷起了地上的枯叶。

lǐn​liè de shuò fēng hū​xiào ér guò, juǎn​qǐ le dì​shang de kū​yè.

The piercing north wind howled past, whipping up the withered leaves on the ground.

new moon noun
the first day of the lunar month

每逢朔日，这间古老的寺庙里都会香烟缭绕。

měi féng shuò​rì, zhè jiān gǔ​lǎo de sì​miào lǐ dōu huì xiāng​yān liáo​rào.

Every new moon, the air in this ancient temple is filled with curling incense smoke.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,111th most common 8.50 per million
Movie subtitles
3,378th most common 1.79 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.94 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.78 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6714

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)