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The character 旬 combines the wrapping radical 勹 (bāo) with 日 (rì, "sun" or "day") to form an ideogrammatic compound representing a unit of time. The enclosure around the day component suggests a cyclical period, specifically the ten-day week of traditional Chinese calendrics. A month was historically divided into three such periods, early, middle, and late. The meaning later extended to denote a ten-year span when discussing age, so a person in their sixties could be described as having lived through six such cycles.
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本月上旬天气很好。
我们预计中旬完成这项工作。
这份报告总结了公司下旬的销售情况。
他每旬都会去探望年迈的父母。
这位画家正处于他创作生涯的第六个旬年。
八旬老人依然坚持每天阅读和学习。
根据气象预报，七月下旬将有持续高温。
这份经济预测涵盖了未来三个旬度的走势分析。