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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夜* | 夜* | *夜
night
HSK 2
midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亱* | 亱* | *亱
variant of
HSK 2
nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)
HSK 5
night
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
very late at night
HSK 7-9
night shift
HSK 7-9
nightclub; nightspot
HSK 7-9
New Year's Eve family dinner
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
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)
midnight
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
luminous
night life
tonight / this evening
nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae)
nightly
night scene / the dim light of night
to spend the night / overnight
overnight / of the previous day
night walk / night departure / nocturnal
midnight snack / late-night snack
at nightfall
moonlit night
midnight
night attack
graveyard shift; late night shift
last night
nightscape
in the dead of night (idiom)
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
evening show (at a theater etc) / nighttime entertainment venue (bar, nightclub, disco etc)
curtain of night / gathering darkness
nocturne (music)
every night
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
serenade
owl / (fig.) night owl
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)
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
evening shift; early night shift
nightingale
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
witch / shrew / vixen
late at night
yaksha (malevolent spirit) (loanword) / (fig.) ferocious-looking person
night blindness / nyctalopia
(Tw) evening program (at a college) / night school
the whole night / all through the night
Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard / to study diligently / to burn the candle at both ends
chamber pot
midnight
nighttime snack / late-night supper
to be sleepless all night
the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
all night long
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
to work from morning to night (idiom)
midnight snack
late at night / in the dead of night
the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜, early morning)
The Arabian Nights (classic story)
fantasy story
night patrol / to make nightly rounds
lit. many nights under a harsh moon / long years of oppression (idiom)
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
curfew
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
morning and night / always / at all times
evening college (abbr. for 夜大學|夜大学)
evening college
first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)
the eve / the night before
white night

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