朝夕相处 (zhāo xī xiāng chǔ)

Character breakdown

• 朝 (Cháo) · 12 strokes

  Depicts the early part of morning when the sun (日) can still be seen on the horizon between blades of grass (屮), and the moon (月) is still in the sky. Based on the original meaning "early morning". Th…

• 夕 (xī) · 3 strokes

  Pictograph of the moon. Used to express "evening" or "night".

• 相 (Xiāng) · 9 strokes

  Depicts an eye (目) looking at a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "look at". The meaning of this character has shifted over time to "compare" and "each other".

• 处 (chǔ) · 5 strokes

  Simplified form of 處. Phonosemantic compound. 夂 represents the meaning and 虎 represents the sound.

Usage

他们朝夕相处了三年，感情很深。

to spend all one's time together (idiom)

tā men zhāo xī xiāng chǔ le sān nián ， gǎn qíng hěn shēn 。