"昼" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Strokes 4
Composition
Strokes 9
Structure
Decomp. 尸ㄟ日一
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Prononciation
Mandarin zhòu
Entry Methods
Pinyin zhou4
Kanji /
Cangjie
SOAM
尸人日一
Sijiao 7710.6
Wubi NYJG
CNS 11643 3-2C37
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+663C
GB2312 D6E7
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 zhòu daytime
Results beginning with 昼
 zhòu yè day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop
 zhòu fú yè chū nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
 zhòu duǎn yè cháng the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
 zhòu yè jié lu:4 circadian rhythm
 zhòu yè píng fēn diǎn the equinox
 zhòu yè wēn duó fú duó diurnal temperature range
Approximate Results for 昼
 bái zhòu daytime
 bǐ yè zuò zhòu lit. to make night as day (idiom) / fig. to burn the midnight oil / work especially hard
 bǐ zhòu zuò yè to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs) / fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
 bǔ zhòu bǔ yè day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
 bù fēn zhòu yè day and night / round-the-clock
 yǎn rú bái zhòu as bright as daylight (idiom)
 yè xíng zhòu fú to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
 Zǎi Yǔ zhòu qǐn 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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