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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晚* | 晚* | *晚
evening / night / late
HSK 1
evening / night / CL: 個|个 / in the evening
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夜* | 夜* | *夜
night
HSK 2
midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
Good night! / Good evening!
HSK 2
nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)
HSK 5
in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk
HSK 6
night
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肝* | 肝* | *肝
liver (CL:葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
HSK 6
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
day and night / around the clock
HSK 6
night market
HSK 7-9
night / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
evening / night
HSK 7-9
very late at night
HSK 7-9
excrement / feces / night soil
HSK 7-9
night shift
HSK 7-9
all night / throughout the night
HSK 7-9
day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop
HSK 7-9
to stay up late or all night
HSK 7-9
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
from morning till night / from dawn to dusk / all day long
HSK 7-9
the whole night
HSK 7-9
night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
HSK 7-9
evening school / night school
HSK 7-9
all through the night / overnight
to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
yesterday evening / last night
long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression
to go to some place at night / to take a night trip to (a place) / to sleepwalk
deep at night
night shift
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
deep (valley or night) / abstruse / hidden in depth
night life
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宵* | 宵* | *宵
night
to go to bed / to retire for the night
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *汐* | 汐* | *汐
night tides / evening ebbtide / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
night scene / the dim light of night
night clothes / pajamas
to spend the night / overnight
night walk / night departure / nocturnal
midnight snack / late-night snack
to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晦* | 晦* | *晦
(bound form) last day of a lunar month / (bound form) dark; gloomy / (literary) night
moonlit night
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宿* | 宿* | *宿
lodge for the night / old / former
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宿* | 宿* | *宿
night / classifier for nights
night attack
graveyard shift; late night shift
last night
in the dead of night (idiom)
Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings
Silent Night (Christmas carol) / Christmas Eve
the second half of the night; early morning (cf. 小夜, evening) / (fig.) eternal rest; death / (Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk
lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from)
curtain of night / gathering darkness
every night
to sleep outdoors / to spend the night in the open
to have a sleepless night
River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚
on that night
that very night / the same night
lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived
owl / (fig.) night owl
to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women
night sky
(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
wedding night
starlit night / by night; under the night sky; through the night
tuberose (Agave amica) / night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) (aka 夜香木)
human excrement / night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer)
evening shift; early night shift
to spend the whole night
to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom) / fig. peaceful and clear night / (allusively) living a solitary and quiet life
first half of the night / time before midnight
the still of the night (idiom) / late at night
lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society
Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
late at night
watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
night-scented lily (Alocasia odora)
night train
lit. briefcase company / dummy corporation / shell company / fly-by-night company
night blindness / nyctalopia
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4-5 year olds)
night; nightfall
(Tw) evening program (at a college) / night school
the whole night / all through the night
middle of the night / the dead of night
Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
altar lamp burning day and night
night sweats
nighttime snack / late-night supper
to be sleepless all night
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)

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