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昼

zhòu

HSK 6 Character Traditional 晝

What 昼 means

1. daytime

Example sentences

• 春天白昼变长了。
  Chūntiān báizhòu biàn cháng le.
  In spring, the days get longer.
• 这段时间昼夜温差很大。
  There is a large temperature difference between day and night during this period of time.
• 你这样不分昼夜地工作，将会伤害自己的健康。
  Nǐ zhèyàng bùfēnzhòuyè de gōngzuò, jiānghuì shānghài zìjǐ de jiànkāng.
  If you work day and night, you will lose your health.

Words starting with 昼

• 昼夜zhòu yèday and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop
• 昼行性zhòu xíng xìngdiurnality; diurnal
• 昼伏夜出zhòu fú yè chūnocturnal; to hide by day and come out at night
• 昼夜节律zhòu yè jié lǜcircadian rhythm
• 昼夜平分点zhòu yè píng fēn diǎnthe equinox

Words containing 昼

• 白昼bái zhòudaytime
• 极昼jí zhòupolar day
• 不分昼夜bù fēn zhòu yèday and night; round-the-clock
• 卜昼卜夜bǔ zhòu bǔ yèday and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
• 夜行昼伏yè xíng zhòu fúto travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
• 俾夜作昼bǐ yè zuò zhòulit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard
• 俾昼作夜bǐ zhòu zuò yèto make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure…

Characters that look like 昼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 查cháto research; to check; to investigate
• 羞xiūshy; ashamed; shame
• 姿zībeauty; disposition; looks
• 岳yuèwife's parents and paternal uncles
• 奄yǎnsuddenly; abruptly; hastily
• 娄Lóusurname Lou; one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy

Sounds the same

Read zhòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 骤sudden; unexpected; abrupt
• 宙eternity; (geology) eon
• 皱to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
• 咒incantation; magic spell; curse
• 绉crepe; wrinkle
• 胄helmet; descendants
• 纣crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
• 甃brickwork of well
• 酎strong wine
• 㑇(old) beautiful; clever
• 㤘(dialect) stubborn
• 咮beak of bird; peck at