zhòu

daytime

HSK 6 #2651

Character data

HSK 6
Frequency 2651st character
Radical ⼫ (44.6)
Strokes 9
Index # 1723
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

昼 zhòu
  1. 1. daytime

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Words containing 昼

Word Meaning
day and night; continuously, without stop
daytime
day and night; round-the-clock
lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
as bright as daylight (idiom)
day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
to hide by day and come out at night; nocturnal
the equinox
circadian rhythm
the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
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