HSK 6 · Time

黎明 límíng “dawn” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 黎明 means

  1. dawn
  2. daybreak

How to say 黎明

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale黎lí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale明míng2nd tone, rising

黎明 in a sentence

  1. 黎明时我们必须起床。

    Límíng shí wǒmen bìxū qǐchuáng.

    We have to get up at dawn.

    Sentence #858785 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 他们在黎明前控制住了火势。

    Tāmen zài límíng qián kòngzhì zhù le huǒshì.

    They got the fire under control before dawn.

    Sentence #1394864 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 黎明 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 黎 (lí) drawn as one shape
黎líblack

黎 is a single shape of 15 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 明 (míng) with each of its parts in a different colour
明míngbright
  • 日sun · rì
  • 月moon · yuè

Memory aidThe light of the sun 日 and the moon 月 together: bright.

How to write 黎明

黎 15 strokes · 明 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

黎明 (límíng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 黎明 (límíng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 黎明

Words with 明

明天míngtiān · tomorrow明年míngnián · next year明白míngbai · clear聪明cōngming · intelligent说明shuōmíng · to explain证明zhèngmíng · proof明确míngquè · clear表明biǎomíng · to make clear发明fāmíng · to invent光明guāngmíng · bright

More words: Time & Sequence

及早jízǎo · as early as possible连年liánnián · for years in a row历代lìdài · successive dynasties历来lìlái · always凌晨língchén · early morning屡次lǚcì · repeatedly漫长màncháng · very long年度niándù · year (e.g. financial year)

FAQs

黎明 (límíng) means “dawn” or “daybreak”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it límíng: lí with a 2nd tone, then míng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 黎明 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liming with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 黎明 from the suggestions. Typing liming into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
黎明 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.