卜昼卜夜 (卜晝卜夜)
bǔ zhòu bǔ yè
Pinyin

Definition

卜昼卜夜 (卜晝卜夜)
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bǔ zhòu bǔ yè
  1. day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 variant: 夜 yè
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
yè diàn
  1. 1 nightclub
yè jiān
  1. 1 nighttime
  2. 2 evening or night (e.g. classes)
nián yè fàn
  1. 1 New Year's Eve family dinner

Idioms (20)

一个萝卜一个坑
yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng
  1. 1 lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. each person has his own position
  3. 3 each to his own
  4. 4 horses for courses
  5. 5 every kettle has its lid
俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
bǐ zhòu zuò yè
  1. 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
夙夜匪懈
sù yè fěi xiè
  1. 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)
夙兴夜寐
sù xīng yè mèi
  1. 1 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard
  2. 2 to study diligently
  3. 3 to burn the candle at both ends