巡更
xún gēng
Pinyin
Definition
巡更
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- to patrol at night, marking the time by sounding clappers or gongs
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to change or replace
- 2 to experience
- 3 one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided
- 4 watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
- 1 to replace the old with new
- 2 to renew
- 3 to renovate
- 4 to upgrade
- 5 to update
- 6 to regenerate
- 1 more (than sth else)
- 2 even more
- 1 menopause
- 2 andropause
- 1 third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old)
- 2 midnight
- 3 also pr. [sān jīn]
Idioms (9)
屋漏更遭连夜雨
- 1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)
更有甚者
- 1 furthermore (idiom)
更深人静
- 1 deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
深更半夜
- 1 in the dead of night (idiom)
熬更守夜
- 1 to stay up through the night (idiom)