Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhòu
English
- daytime, daylight
- daytime
- daytime
- half-day
粵語
- 日頭；同夜相對
- 半日
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 晝
- 晝夜zau3 je6
day and night
- 白晝baak6 zau3
daytime
- 下晝haa6 zau3
(noun) p.m.; afternoon; (adverb) in the afternoon
- 上晝soeng6 zau3
(noun) a.m.; morning; (adverb) in the morning
- 半晝bun3 zau3
half day (slang)
- 極晝gik6 zau3
polar day
- 晏晝aan3 zau3
(noun) afternoon; noon; (adverb) in the afternoon; at noon
- 晏晝飯aan3 zau3 faan6
lunch
- 下半晝haa6 bun3 zau3
Afternoon
- 食晏晝sik6 aan3 zau3
to have lunch
- 晝夜節律zau3 je6 zit3 leot6
circadian rhythm
- 夜行晝伏je6 hang4 zau3 fuk6
to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
- 晝行性zau3 hang4 sing3
diurnality; diurnal
- 上半晝soeng6 bun3 zau3
- 晝夜平分點zau3 je6 ping4 fan1 dim2
the equinox
- 不分晝夜bat1 fan1 zau3 je6
day and night
- 畀夜作晝bei2 je6 zok3 zau3
- 畀晝作夜bei2 zau3 zok3 je6
- 晝短夜長zau3 dyun2 je6 coeng4
- 下晝西斜haa6 zau3 sai1 ce4
- 晝伏夜出zau3 fuk6 je6 ceot1
nocturnal
- 一晝一戙jat1 zau3 jat1 dung6
- 食晏晝飯sik6 aan3 zau3 faan6
- 俾夜作晝bei2 je6 zok3 zau3
lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil