A cloud character in a word for dawnSourced
Japan · Japanese meaning
Shinonome describes daybreak, not a type of cloud
Japanese shinonome refers to daybreak, when the eastern sky begins to brighten. Its written form, 東雲, contains the characters for east and cloud, but the dictionary meaning identifies a time of day.
The cloud character does not make this a cloud classification.
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