俾夜作昼 bǐ yè zuò zhòu

lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2. work especially hard

Characters

Character Meaning
俾 bǐ
to cause; to enable; phonetic bi
夜 yè HSK 5
night; variant of 夜yè
作 zuò HSK 1
to do; to write or compose; writings or works
昼 zhòu HSK 6
daytime