昼

See also: 晝
昼 U+663C, 昼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-663C
← 昻
[U+663B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昽 →
[U+663D]

Translingual
Japanese 昼
Simplified 昼
Traditional 晝

Etymology

Simplified from 晝 (聿 → 尺)

Han character

昼 (radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸人日一 (SOAM), composition ⿵尺旦)

  1. daytime, daylight

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 494, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13886
  • Dae Jaweon: page 859, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1504, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+663C

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 昼 – see 晝 (“daytime; day; daylight; etc.”).
(This character, 昼, is the simplified form of 晝.)
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

 昼

Kyūjitai

 晝

Kanji
昼

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 晝)

  1. daytime
  2. noon

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Alternative forms
Kanji in this term
昼
ひる
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

⟨pi1ru⟩ → */pʲiru/ → /firu/ → /hiru/

From Old Japanese.

Derived from 日 (hi, “day”), suffixed with an element ru of unclear meaning. Compare 夜 (yoru, “night, evening”), which seems to use this same ru element.

Pronunciation

Noun

昼 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 晝, hiragana ひる, rōmaji hiru)

  1. daytime
    • 711–712, Kojiki (poem 21)
      宇 (う)泥 (ね)備 (び)夜 (や)麻 (ま)比 (ひ)流 (る)波 (は)久 (く)毛 (も)登 (と)韋 (ゐ)由 (ゆ)布 (ふ)佐 (さ)禮 (れ)婆 (ば)加 (か)是 (ぜ)布 (ふ)加 (か)牟 (む)登 (と)曾 (ぞ)許 (こ)能 (の)波 (は)佐 (さ)夜 (や)牙 (げ)流 (る) [Man'yōgana]
      畝 (うね)火 (び)山 (やま)昼 (ひる)は雲 (くも)とゐ夕 (ゆふ)されば風 (かぜ)吹 (ふ)かむとぞ木 (こ)の葉 (は)さやげる [Modern spelling]
      Unebi-yama hiru wa kumo to i yū sareba kaze fukamu to zo konoha sayageru
      (please add an English translation of this example)
    Synonym: 昼間 (chūkan, hiruma)
    Antonyms: 明るい間 (akarui ma), 夜 (yoru)
  2. noon, midday
    Synonym: 正午 (shōgo)
  3. Short for 昼飯 (hirumeshi): lunch
  4. the heyday of something

Derived terms
Derived terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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