夜行昼伏 — Chinese idiom
夜行昼伏
yè xíng zhòu fú
Traditional: 夜行晝伏
Meaning
- to travel at night and lie low by day
Character by character
- 夜yènight, dark; under cover of night
- 行xíngto go, to walk, to move; professional
- 昼zhòudaytime, daylight
- 伏fúto crouch, to crawl, to lie hidden, to conceal
Idioms sharing a character
- 三更半夜 sān gēng bàn yè
- 俾夜作昼 bǐ yè zuò zhòu
- 夙夜匪懈 sù yè fěi xiè
- 夙兴夜寐 sù xīng yè mèi
- 夜不归宿 yè bù guī sù
- 夜不闭户 yè bù bì hù
- 夜以继日 yè yǐ jì rì
- 夜深人静 yè shēn rén jìng
- 夜郎自大 Yè láng zì dà
- 夜阑人静 yè lán rén jìng
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