Memory phrase for the Kanji: 昼


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Meaning daytime, daylight

Pronunciation

zhòu

Explanation

Top: Length measurement Chǐ (Chinese foot = 30.3 cm), below: Sunrise (The sun over the horizon )

Mnemonic


 
In Chǐ you measure when the sun is one foot above the horizon: then it is daytime.

Radicals

chin. foot
sun riseThe sun above the horizon at sunrise.
sun, dayThis radical was developed from a circle with a central dot as the image of the sun. As you can hardly draw circles or dots with a brush, it became the current rectangular shape.
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 Vocabulary

 昼夜  zhòu yè  day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop
 俨如白昼  yǎn rú bái zhòu  as bright as daylight (idiom)
 俨如白昼  yǎn rú bái zhòu  

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