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俾昼作夜

bǐ zhòu zuò yè

4-character word Traditional 俾晝作夜

What 俾昼作夜 means

1. to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour

The characters in 俾昼作夜

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

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