Memory phrase for the character: 昼

昼

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Meaning

daytime, daylight

Pronunciation

 zhòu

Explanation

 Top: Length measurement Chǐ 尺 (Chinese foot = 30.3 cm), below: Sunrise 旦 (The sun 日 over the horizon 一)

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

Radicals

尺 chin. foot
旦 sun riseThe sun 日 is just above the horizon 一 at sunrise.
日 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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