zhòu
daytime
When the sun is a foot 尺 above the horizon 旦
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 昼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
day and night | ||
daytime | ||
daytime | ||
day and night | ||
nocturnal |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2651st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+663C |
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