午
wǔ HSK1

noon

午 wǔ
noon time word
noon; mid-day; the period of time from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

现在正值正午，太阳很大。

xiàn​zài zhèng​zhí zhèng wǔ, tài​yang hěn dà.

It is high noon now, and the sun is very strong.

earthly branch time word
the 7th of the 12 earthly branches, associated with the Horse and the 5th solar month

他出生于甲午年，属相是马。

tā chū​shēng yú jiǎ wǔ nián, shǔ​xiàng shì mǎ.

He was born in the Year of Jiawu; his zodiac sign is the Horse.

south time word
ancient Chinese compass point representing 180 degrees or south

指南针的刻度上，子代表北，午代表南。

zhǐ​nán​zhēn de kè​dù shàng, zǐ dài​biǎo běi, wǔ dài​biǎo nán.

On a compass scale, 'Zi' represents North and 'Wu' represents South.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,004th most common 160.1 per million
Movie subtitles
731st most common 174.4 per million appears in 56% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.13 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.29 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5348

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)