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俾夜作昼

bǐ yè zuò zhòu

4-character word Traditional 俾夜作晝

What 俾夜作昼 means

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

The characters in 俾夜作昼

• 俾bǐto cause; to enable; phonetic bi
• 夜yènight
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 昼zhòudaytime

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