晝

晝 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中土日一 (LGAM), four-corner 5010₆, composition ⿱書一)

• 𣻱, 𮉂

• 昼 (Japanese shinjitai and simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 495, character 43
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13948
• Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1515, character 2
• Unihan data for U+665D

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 畫／画 (“draw”) + 日 (“sun”) (by replacing the 田 component with 日)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-duk (“daytime; noon”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan གདུགས (gdugs, “midday; umbrella”).

晝

1. daytime; day; daylight

   • 宰予晝寢。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     宰予昼寝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǎi Yǔ zhòuqǐn. [Pinyin]

     Zai Yu was asleep at daytime.

   • 晝爾于茅、宵爾索綯。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     昼尔于茅、宵尔索绹。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhòu ěr yú máo, xiāo ěr suǒ táo. [Pinyin]

     In the day time collect the grass, and at night twist it into ropes.

   • 式號式呼、俾晝作夜。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     式号式呼、俾昼作夜。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shì hào shì hū, bǐ zhòu zuò yè. [Pinyin]

     Amid clamour and shouting, you turn the day into night.

2. (Hakka, Min) lunch
3. An ancient placename in modern-day Zibo, Shandong province, China.
4. a surname

• “晝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 昼)

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• Go-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kun: ひる (hiru, 晝)

From Middle Chinese 晝 (MC ʈɨu^H).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕu]
• Phonetic hangul: [주]

Wikisource 晝 (eumhun 낮 주 (nat ju))

1. Hanja form^? of 주 (“daytime”). [affix]

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

晝: Hán Nôm readings: chú, trú

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