U+663C "昼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+663C "昼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "daytime," "noon," or "daylight," and it is commonly used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems. In Chinese, it is read as "zhòu" and appears in words like "白昼" meaning "broad daylight," while in Japanese it is read as "hiru" and is found in terms such as "昼間" or "daytime." The character is composed of the radical "日" which represents the sun or day, combined with a simplified form of "畫" or "画" indicating boundary or division, symbolically referring to the period of sunlight between dawn and dusk. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is used across East Asian languages to express the concept of the daytime portion of a 24 hour cycle.