昼伏夜出 (晝伏夜出)
zhòu fú yè chū
Pinyin
Definition
昼伏夜出 (晝伏夜出)
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- nocturnal
- to hide by day and come out at night
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to pay
- 2 to invest (energy or time in a friendship etc)
- 1 to extend
- 1 to go out
- 2 to come out
- 3 to occur
- 4 to produce
- 5 to go beyond
- 6 to rise
- 7 to put forth
- 8 to happen
- 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 1 to come out
- 2 to appear
- 3 to arise
Idioms (20)
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鼻孔出气
- 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
- 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
伏龙凤雏
- 1 hidden genius (idiom)
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
- 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour