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晝

zhòu

daytime, daylight

Strokes
11
Radical
日
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 昼

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 昼, the simplified form of 晝. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 春天白昼变长了。

    Chūn tiān bái zhòu biàn cháng le

    In spring the days get longer.

  • 这段时间昼夜温差很大。

    Zhè duàn shí jiān zhòu yè wēn chā hěn dà

    There is a large temperature difference between day and night during this period of time.

  • 夏至是一年中，日昼时间最长的一天。

    Xià zhì shì yì nián zhōng rì zhòu shí jiān zuì cháng de yì tiān

    The Summer Solstice is the day with the longest daytime hours of the year.

  • 你这样不分昼夜地工作，将会伤害自己的健康。

    Nǐ zhè yàng bù fēn zhòu yè de gōng zuò jiāng huì shāng hài zì jǐ de jiàn kāng

    If you work day and night, you will lose your health.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 昼

  • 昼夜zhòu yè 4–4 day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop