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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
night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
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
night / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
the whole night
HSK 7-9
very late at night
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
reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)
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
somnambulism / sleepwalking
the middle of the night
tonight / this evening
(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)
He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
the whole night / all through the night
to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil
(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)
long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression
midnight snack
circadian rhythm
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)
one-night stand / ephemeral
the eve / the night before
in the dead of night (idiom)
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
to travel day and night
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
overnight / of the previous day
in the dead of night (idiom)
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
a night march
starlit night / by night; under the night sky; through the night
Inuyasha, fictional character
night blindness
late at night / in the dead of night
nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae)
tuberose (Agave amica) / night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) (aka 夜香木)
chamber pot
nightscape
variant of 夜宵
all through the night / overnight
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
the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜, early morning)
to be unable to sleep at night
midnight
(idiom) in the middle of the night
the still of the night (idiom) / late at night
to be on night duty
nighttime snack / late-night supper
night patrol / to make nightly rounds
night vision device
night owl / late sleeper
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

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