昼夜 zhòuyè▶ Día y noche

Stroke order

昼夜 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 昼 — 9 strokes
• 夜 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. day and night
2. period of 24 hours
3. continuously, without stop

Related words

• 夜noche
• 熬夜trasnochar

昼夜 is pronounced zhòuyè and means “Día y noche”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 昼夜 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.