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The character "旦" derives from an early pictographic design showing the sun above a line representing the horizon, capturing the essence of sunrise and dawn, with its structure consistently built from the component "日" for sun placed over a horizontal stroke to visually communicate this idea. Initially representing the specific moment of daybreak, its meaning gradually expanded to denote the broader concept of a day or the beginning of a time period, often appearing in classical texts and compound words where it conveys inception or the start of an event, thereby illustrating a semantic extension from a concrete image to an abstract temporal marker while preserving its foundational visual logic.
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我们一起庆祝元旦。
元旦那天我们放假。
元旦的早晨很安静。
她学习京剧旦角。
一旦下雨，比赛就取消。
平旦时分，天刚亮。
震旦是中国的古称。
病情旦夕之间可能恶化。