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midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
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son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
midnight snack
midnight
midnight snack / late-night snack
third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1]
first half of the night / time before midnight
beauty sleep (before midnight)
midnight
midnight / zero hour
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
midnight / to order à la carte / (math.) zero of a function
first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)
past midnight
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)
lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background / burning the midnight oil
midnight
lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil / work especially hard


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