Character data
Character data
| HSK | 6 |
| Frequency | 2651st character |
| Radical | ⼫ (44.6) |
| Strokes | 9 |
| Index # | 1723 |
| TRADITIONAL | 晝 |
Definitions
| 昼 zhòu |
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Words containing 昼
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day and night; continuously, without stop
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daytime
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day and night; round-the-clock
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lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
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to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
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as bright as daylight (idiom)
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day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
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to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
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Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
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to hide by day and come out at night; nocturnal
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the equinox
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circadian rhythm
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the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
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