通宵达旦

通宵達旦
tōngxiāo-dádàn
idiom #40,886

Meanings

  1. 1 all through the night till dawn
  2. 2 around the clock; all-nighter
  3. 3 staying up till daybreak

Examples

HSK 3
Xuéshēng men tōngxiāodádàn de fùxí, zhǔnbèi kǎoshì.
The students pulled all-nighters studying for the exam.
HSK 4
Tā tōngxiāodádàn de gōngzuò, zhōngyú wánchéng le xiàngmù.
He worked through the night and finally finished the project.

Tips

usage
Usually adverbial - 通宵达旦 + verb (工作, 学习, 加班, 看球). The 达旦 ('reaching dawn') frames it as a single continuous stretch, not repeated nights. For 'many consecutive nights', use 夜以继日.
memory
Four characters, each a time word: (through) + (night) + (reaching) + (dawn). Read literally left-to-right and you get a one-line summary: through-night reaching-dawn.

Stroke Order

tōng
xiāo
dàn