タン, ダン, あき.らか, あきら, ただし, あさ, あした

daybreak, dawn, morning

JLPT1 G7 S5 F5000

sun/day + a line# representing the horizon (compare ) → the sun rising upon the long, flat line of the horizon → *sunrise*; *dawn*. As it was in , the line was the phonosemantic element in .

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