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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夜* | 夜* | *夜
night
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夜* | 夜* | *夜
variant of
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)
HSK 5
night
HSK 6
day and night / around the clock
HSK 6
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
to stay up late or all night
HSK 7-9
night / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
very late at night
HSK 7-9
the whole night
HSK 7-9
night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
HSK 7-9
day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop
HSK 7-9
night market
HSK 7-9
night shift
HSK 7-9
evening school / night school
HSK 7-9
New Year's Eve family dinner
HSK 7-9
nightclub; nightspot
HSK 7-9
to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard / to study diligently / to burn the candle at both ends
the middle of the night
tonight / this evening
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
nightscape
to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil
long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression
midnight
lunar New Year's Eve
nocturne (music)
luminous
midnight
evening college (abbr. for 夜大學|夜大学)
evening show (at a theater etc) / nighttime entertainment venue (bar, nightclub, disco etc)
midnight snack
the eve / the night before
in the dead of night (idiom)
midnight
to go to some place at night / to take a night trip to (a place) / to sleepwalk
to spend the night / overnight
at nightfall
night walk / night departure / nocturnal
moonlit night
curtain of night / gathering darkness
yaksha (malevolent spirit) (loanword) / (fig.) ferocious-looking person
every night
small barbarian kingdom in southern China during the Han dynasty
night attack
night sky
midnight snack / late-night snack
overnight / of the previous day
the whole night / all through the night
nightingale
day and night / regardless of the time of day or night
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
nightclub
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
white night
The Arabian Nights (classic story)
fantasy story
to get up in the night to urinate
night vision
on that night
that very night / the same night
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
starlit night / by night; under the night sky; through the night
in the dead of night (idiom)
Inuyasha, fictional character
night blindness
late at night / in the dead of night
(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)
nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae)
tuberose (Agave amica) / night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) (aka 夜香木)
chamber pot
last night
lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom) / fig. foolish conceit
lit. many nights under a harsh moon / long years of oppression (idiom)
lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society
Lantern Festival / night of 15th of first lunar month / see also 元宵
the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜, early morning)
to be unable to sleep at night
on night duty
the still of the night (idiom) / late at night
to be on night duty
nighttime snack / late-night supper
to work from morning to night (idiom)
night patrol / to make nightly rounds
night vision device
all through the night / overnight
nocturnal bird
witch / shrew / vixen
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
night life
River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚
darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc)
owl / (fig.) night owl
(lit. and fig.) overnight
to book a service for overnight use (karaoke room, internet café etc) / (euphemistic) to hire a companion or escort for the night
endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering

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