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Trad. 晝
  • daytime
Trad. 晝夜
  • day and night
  • period of 24 hours
  • continuously, without stop
Trad. 俾夜作晝
  • lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  • work especially hard
Trad. 俾晝作夜
  • to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
Trad. 卜晝卜夜
  • day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
Trad. 晝伏夜出
  • nocturnal
  • to hide by day and come out at night
Trad. 晝短夜長
  • the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
Trad. 宰予晝寢
  • Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
Trad. 夜行晝伏
  • to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)

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