昼 — Chinese character
昼
zhòu
daytime, daylight
- Pinyin
- zhòu
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 尺 旦
- Formation
- ideographic — When the sun is a foot 尺 above the horizon 旦
- Traditional
- 晝
- Japanese
- 昼 as a kanji
Common words with 昼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昼夜 (晝夜) | zhòu yè | day and night; period of 24 hours |
| 白昼 (白晝) | bái zhòu | daytime |
| 不分昼夜 (不分晝夜) | bù fēn zhòu yè | day and night; round-the-clock |
| 极昼 (極晝) | jí zhòu | polar day |
| 昼伏夜出 (晝伏夜出) | zhòu fú yè chū | nocturnal; to hide by day and come out at night |
| 昼夜节律 (晝夜節律) | zhòu yè jié lǜ | circadian rhythm |
| 俾夜作昼 (俾夜作晝) | bǐ yè zuò zhòu | lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard |
| 俾昼作夜 (俾晝作夜) | bǐ zhòu zuò yè | to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour |
| 卜昼卜夜 (卜晝卜夜) | bǔ zhòu bǔ yè | day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) |
| 夜行昼伏 (夜行晝伏) | yè xíng zhòu fú | to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom) |
| 昼行性 (晝行性) | zhòu xíng xìng | diurnality; diurnal |
English words written with 昼
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.