HSK 6 · Time

昼夜 zhòuyè “day and night” in Chinese

Traditional 晝夜

What 昼夜 means

  1. day and night
  2. round the clock
  3. period of 24 hours
  4. continuously, without stop

How to say 昼夜

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale昼zhòu4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale夜yè4th tone, falling

昼夜 in a sentence

  1. 这段时间昼夜温差很大。

    Zhè duàn shíjiān zhòuyè wēnchā hěn dà.

    At this time of year, the temperature difference between day and night is large.

    Sentence #9989857 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你这样不分昼夜地工作，将会伤害自己的健康。

    Nǐ zhèyàng bù fēn zhòuyè de gōngzuò, jiāng huì shānghài zìjǐ de jiànkāng.

    If you work day and night like this, you’ll damage your health.

    Sentence #604462 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 昼夜 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 昼 (zhòu) with each of its parts in a different colour
昼zhòudaytime
  • 尺part of the character
  • 旦dawn · dàn
The character 夜 (yè) drawn as one shape
夜yènight

夜 is a single shape of 8 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 昼夜

昼 9 strokes · 夜 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

昼夜 (zhòuyè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 昼夜 (zhòuyè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 昼夜

Words with 夜

夜yè · night熬夜áoyè · to stay up late

More words: Time & Sequence

以后yǐhòu · after傍晚bàngwǎn · dusk正月zhēngyuè · first month of the lunar year终身zhōngshēn · lifelong周年zhōunián · anniversary周期zhōuqī · cycle逐年zhúnián · year after year作息zuòxī · work and rest

FAQs

昼夜 (zhòuyè) means “day and night” or “round the clock”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhòuyè: zhòu with a 4th tone, then yè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 昼夜 is written 晝夜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhouye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 昼夜 from the suggestions. Typing zhouye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
昼夜 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.