Memory phrase for the character: 昼

昼

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

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

尺	chin. foot
旦	sun rise	The sun 日 above the horizon 一 at sunrise.
日	sun, day	This 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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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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