The kanji 昼: meaning, readings and stroke order

昼

Meaning: noon, daytime
On reading: チュウ chuu
Kun reading: ひる hiru
Strokes: 9
Radical: 日 sun, day
Level: Level 2 · grade 2
Old form: 晝

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: buổi trưa, ban ngày (trú)
Japanese: ひる。
Korean: 낮, 점심 (주)
Chinese: 中午、白天

Readings, words and example sentences

チュウ chuu · on reading

昼ちゅう食しょく
lunch
学校で 昼ちゅう食しょくを食べます。
I eat lunch at school.

ひる hiru · kun reading

昼ひる
noon, daytime
昼ひるになるとあつくなります。
It gets hot around noon.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.