俾夜作昼

Traditional form:

俾夜作晝

Pinyin (reading):

bǐyèzuòzhòu

Definitions:

• lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
• work especially hard

Characters:

• 俾 - so that, in order that; to cause
• 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 昼 - daytime, daylight

Traditional characters:

• 俾 - so that, in order that; to cause
• 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 晝 - daytime, daylight