昼
ひる
hepburn hiru
noon, daytime, lunch
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 昼ご飯は何を食べますか。What will you eat for lunch?
- 昼の十二時に会いましょう。Let's meet at 12 noon.
Collocations
昼ご飯 (hirugohan, lunch)昼の十二時 (noon, 12 PM)昼休み (hiruyasumi, lunch break)昼間 (hiruma, daytime)お昼 (ohiru, polite lunch)
Mnemonic
Hiru — 昼, daytime. The sound is Yamato. The kanji 昼 is Korean "ju" (as in 昼間). Curiously, お昼 (ohiru) means both "midday" and "lunch" — the time of day became the meal itself. A schedule that decides what you eat.
Quick check
"Let's have lunch together" — natural Japanese?