午 — Chinese character
午
wǔ
noon; 7th terrestrial branch
- Pinyin
- wǔ
- Radical
- 24 ⼗ (Ten)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 丿 干
- Japanese
- 午 as a kanji
Common words with 午
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 下午 | xià wǔ | afternoon; 个 (gè) |
| 上午 | shàng wǔ | morning |
| 中午 | zhōng wǔ | noon; midday |
| 午餐 | wǔ cān | lunch; luncheon |
| 午夜 | wǔ yè | midnight |
| 午饭 (午飯) | wǔ fàn | lunch; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì), 餐 (cān) |
| 午后 (午後) | wǔ hòu | afternoon |
| 正午 | zhèng wǔ | midday; noon |
| 下午茶 | xià wǔ chá | afternoon tea (light afternoon meal, typically pastries with tea or coffee) |
| 午睡 | wǔ shuì | to take a nap in the afternoon |
| 甲午 | jiǎ wǔ | thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 |
| 午休 | wǔ xiū | noon break; lunch break |
English words written with 午
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.