日 rì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
日夜
rìyè
day and night
Characters in this word
夜 yè
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 为了赶在汛期前完成加固工程，施工队日夜在大坝上工作。 Wèile gǎn zài xùnqī qián wánchéng jiāgù gōngchéng, shīgōngduì rìyè zài dàbà shang gōngzuò. To finish the reinforcement project before flood season, the construction team worked day and night on the dam.
- 医生们日夜守在病人身边。 Yīshēngmen rìyè shǒu zài bìngrén shēnbiān. The doctors stayed by the patient's side day and night.
- 她日夜思念远方的家人。 Tā rìyè sīniàn yuǎnfāng de jiārén. She misses her family far away day and night.