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The character 晓, in its traditional form 曉, combines the semantic component 日 (sun) with the phonetic component 堯 (yáo), which implies height or loftiness, indicating its original meaning of dawn as the sun rises high. From this concrete sense of morning light, its meaning broadened to the abstract concept of mental illumination, resulting in the common verbal meaning "to know" or "to understand". The simplified form 晓 retains the 日 component but uses the simplified phonetic 尧.
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我晓得这件事。
我们拂晓就出发。
春晓是一首古诗。
他已知晓全部真相。
破晓时分，天边泛红。
老师耐心地晓之以理。
江边惟见晓风残月。
这个故事如今家喻户晓。