昼ひる

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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

Refers to the time around 12 PM. Often used in compounds like 昼休み (lunch break) or 昼食 (lunch).

昼ひるになるfor it to become noon
話はなしているうちに、もう昼ひるになった。
While we were talking, it became noon already.
昼ひるから〈動どう詞し〉to do something from noon/daytime onward
昼ひるから雨あめが降ふり始はじめた。
It started raining from noon onward.
昼ひるを食たべに行いくto go get lunch (casual way of saying 昼ご飯を食べに行く)
そろそろ昼ひるを食たべに行いこう。
Let's go get lunch soon.

正しょう午ごN3sense 1
正午 is the precise, formal term for 12:00 noon, while 昼 is the everyday word covering the general midday period.
昼ひる間まN4sense 2
昼間 emphasizes the stretch of daylight hours as a period, while 昼 more loosely refers to daytime or noon.
お昼ひるN3
昼 is the plain, neutral word for noon or daytime, while お昼 is the softer, more polite form often used in casual conversation.
日ひN5
昼 specifically means noon or the middle of the day, while 日 can refer to the whole daylight period.

夜よるN5sense 2
夜 (night) is the direct opposite of 昼 (daytime) when contrasting the two halves of the day.

お昼ひるpolite 丁寧語N3
お昼 is the polite/softer form of 昼, commonly used in casual conversation for both 'noon' and 'lunch'.

ヒル
昼 is the extremely common word for 'noon/daytime' and is pronounced identically to ヒル, but the two have completely unrelated meanings.
昼ひる前まえN1
昼 means 'noon' or 'daytime' itself, whereas 昼前 specifically means the time just before that noon.
干ひる
昼 (noon, daytime) is pronounced identically to 干る but is an unrelated noun, so listeners must rely on context to distinguish them.

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Native Japanese word. The kanji 昼 is a pictograph representing the sun at its zenith, conventionally associated with 'daytime' and 'noon'.