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俾晝作夜 (bei2 zau3 zok3 je6) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

俾晝作夜 (bei2 zau3 zok3 je6, bǐ zhòu zuò yè) — to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 俾 (bei2) — to cause; to enable; phonetic bi; so that; in order that; by; to allow; to let;…
• 俾心機 (bei2 sam1 gei1) — making effort; trying hard (spoken)
• 俾錢 (bei2 cin2) — pay
• 俾面 (bei2 min6) — giving one's face (spoken)
• 俾人屌到撻皮 (bei2 jan4 diu2 dou3 taat3 pei4) — to be beaten up severely [colloquial]
• 俾人燉 (bei2 jan4 dan6) — to be demoted [colloquial]

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