昼
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daytime
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 日 +5
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 昼
- Common rank
- #2,933
- Unicode
- U+663C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 昼
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昼夜平分点 | the equinox | |
| 不分昼夜 | day and night; round-the-clock | |
| 昼行性 | diurnality; diurnal | |
| 夜行昼伏 | to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom) | |
| 昼伏夜出 | nocturnal; to hide by day and come out at night | |
| 昼夜节律 | circadian rhythm | |
| 白昼 | daytime | |
| 卜昼卜夜 | day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) | |
| 俾夜作昼 | lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard | |
| 俾昼作夜 | to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardles… | |
| 昼夜 | day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop | |
| 极昼 | polar day |