夙兴夜寐 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 夙興夜寐 sùxīngyèmèi ㄙㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄟˋ 男 女 to rise early and sleep late (idiom) to work hard to study diligently to burn the candle at both ends Character by character 夙(sù)early 兴(xīng)rise 夜(yè)night 寐(mèi)sleep soundly Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0