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白昼

báizhòu

daytime

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

daytime

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 白昼 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 白昼 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

春天白昼变长了。chūn tiān bái zhòu biàn zhǎng le。

In spring the days get longer.

白昼最长,心宿二黄昏时出现在正南天空,可以据此来确定仲夏。bái zhòu zuì zhǎng, xīn sù èr huáng hūn shí chū xiàn zài zhèng nán tiān kōng, kě yǐ jù cǐ lái què dìng zhòng xià。

No published English translation for this sentence.

阳光直射北回归线,白昼到达最长,日影缩至最短,所以称作“夏至”。而“至”的意思,就是极限。yáng guāng zhí shè běi huí guī xiàn, bái zhòu dào dá zuì zhǎng, rì yǐng suō zhì zuì duǎn, suǒ yǐ chēng zuò “ xià zhì ”。 ér “ zhì ” de yì si, jiù shì jí xiàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 白昼.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 白昼.

Directly before

  • 春天白昼1

Directly after

  • 白昼变长1
  • 白昼到达1
  • 白昼最长1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 白昼

What does 白昼 mean in Chinese?

白昼 (báizhòu) means daytime.

How do you pronounce 白昼?

白昼 is pronounced báizhòu.

Is 白昼 an HSK word?

白昼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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