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昼 kanji
daytime, noon
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
チュウ
Kun readings
ひる
Variant forms
晝Words with 昼
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3昼食Popularlunch; midday meal
- —昼夜Popularday and night
- —昼餐luncheon
- —昼礼afternoon assembly (at a company, etc.)
- —白昼daytime; midday
- —昼光daylight
- —昼勤day shift
- —昼三highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hōreki era onward)
- —春昼spring day (which seems long and quiet)
- —炎昼hot summer early afternoon
- —昼食lunch; midday meal
- —一昼夜whole day and night; 24 hours
- —昼食会luncheon meeting
- —白昼夢daydream; waking dream
- —昼光色daylight color; daylight colour
- —昼夜帯women's obi with a different colour on each side (originally black and white)
- —昼食時lunch time
- —昼食代lunch price
- —昼食後after lunch
- —昼行性diurnality; daytime activity; diurnal