昼
daytime
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,933 U+663C
How 昼 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
When the sun is a foot 尺 above the horizon 旦
How to remember it
daylight · Heisig RSH #2151
尺 ruler + 旦 daybreak
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 昼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昼夜平分点 | zhòu yè píng fēn diǎn | the equinox |
| 不分昼夜 | bù fēn zhòu yè | day and night; round-the-clock |
| 昼行性 | zhòu xíng xìng | diurnality; diurnal |
| 夜行昼伏 | yè xíng zhòu fú | to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom) |
| 昼伏夜出 | zhòu fú yè chū | nocturnal; to hide by day and come out at night |
| 昼夜节律 | zhòu yè jié lǜ | circadian rhythm |
| 白昼 | bái zhòu | daytime |
| 卜昼卜夜 | bǔ zhòu bǔ yè | day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) |
| 俾夜作昼 | bǐ yè zuò zhòu | lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard |
| 俾昼作夜 | bǐ zhòu zuò yè | to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardles… |
| 昼夜 | zhòu yè | day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop |
| 极昼 | jí zhòu | polar day |