昼

See also 晝

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 晝 (聿 → 尺)

Han character

昼 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸人日一 (SOAM))

1. daytime, daylight

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 494, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13886
• Dae Jaweon: page 859, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1504, character 3
• Unihan data for U+663C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

昼 (traditional 晝, Yale jau3)

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Japanese

Noun

昼 (hiragana ひる, romaji hiru)

1. 12 p.m. ;noon
2. daytime
3. a meal eaten around the noon; lunch

Kanji

昼 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: ひる (hiru)

Compounds

• 昼御飯 (ひるごはん, hirugohan, “lunch”)
• 昼間人口
• 昼食 (ちゅうしょく, chūshoku, “lunch”)
• 昼夜
• 昼餉
• 昼下がり
• 白昼
• 真昼

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Korean

Hanja

昼 (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

昼 (traditional 晝, pinyin zhòu (zhou4), Wade-Giles chou⁴)

Compounds

• 昼伏夜游
• 昼夜
• 昼夜兼行