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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「卜夜卜晝」 for your learning.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「卜夜卜晝」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Divination: divination. Describes excessive feasting and reveling day and night.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bo yè bo zhòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

puk1/buk1/baak6 ye6 puk1/buk1/baak6 jau3

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.