lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard
trad. 俾夜作晝
Also written 俾夜作晝【bǐ yè zuò zhòu】
Characters in this word
4俾
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to cause, to enable, phonetic bi, Taiwan pr. [bi4]
- Pinyin
- bǐ
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 19639 of 2500
夜
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
variant of 夜[ye4]
- Pinyin
- yè
- Traditional
- 亱
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 4459 of 2500
作
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(bound form) worker, (bound form) workshop, (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
- Pinyin
- zuō
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 1866 of 2500
昼
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
daytime
- Pinyin
- zhòu
- Traditional
- 晝
- Strokes
- 9