十早

mist

At the bottom is the primitive (also a character) for EARLY or SUNFLOWER (早). At the top, a NEEDLE (十). Conveniently, MIST falls early in the morning, like little NEELEs of rain, to assure that the SUNFLOWER blooms EARLY as we have learned it should by malix

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