Taxonomy of meanings for 晝:　　

  • 晝 zhòu (OC: tus MC: ʈiu) 陟救切 去 廣韻：【日中又姓晝邑大夫之後因氏焉出風俗通陟救切三 】
    • DAY
      • ndaytime, daylight
      • nadNdaytime-(meal etc)
      • nadVtimeduring the daytime
      • npostadVduring the daytime

    Additional information about 晝

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    • NIGHT

      1. Yè 夜 (ant. zhòu 晝 "daytime", and rì 日 "day (when it is bright)") is the general term referring to the part of the day when it is dark, i.e. the evening and the night.

      2. Xiāo 宵 (ant. zhòu 晝 ) refers to the night only, without including the evening, and the reference is not to the length of time so much as to the absence of sunlight.

      3. Yè fēn 夜分 (ant. rì zhōng 日中 "midday") refers to midnight.

      4. Sù 宿 refers to a night as what is spent in a hostel, or as the time one uses for sleep.

      5. Míng 冥 is occasionally used to refer, by synecdoche, to the night as the time when it is dark.

    • DAYTIME

      晝

    • DAY

      1. The general term for the day as the time of human activity is 日 (ant. 夜 "nighttime, when there is no activity", and perhaps sometimes xì 夕 "the time of day when the sun is declining and including the time when the sun has gone down but one has not yet gone to bed"). It was unclear in ancient times exactly when during the night one day ends and the next begins.

      2. Zhòu 晝 (ant. xiāo 宵 "nighttime" and yè 夜 "night") refers to that part of the day when there is daylight.

      Word relations
    • Oppos: (DAY)夜/NIGHT Yè 夜 (ant. zhòu 晝 "daytime", and rì 日"day (when it is bright)") is the general term referring to the part of the day when it is dark, i.e. the evening and the night.