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Pronunciation & meaning
- Pronunciation
Mandarinㄓㄡˋ zhòu
Cantonesezau3
Taiwanesetàu
- Meaning
- daytime, daylight
- Kangxi Radical
- 日 · 11 strokes
Common words
- 晝夜zhòu yèday and night; period of 24 hours
- 白晝bái zhòudaytime
- 晝伏夜出zhòu fú yè chūnocturnal; to hide by day and come out at night
- 極晝jí zhòupolar day
- 不分晝夜bù fēn zhòu yèday and night; round-the-clock
- 俾夜作晝bǐ yè zuò zhòulit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard
- 俾晝作夜bǐ zhòu zuò yèto make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
- 卜晝卜夜bǔ zhòu bǔ yèday and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
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