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midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夜* | 夜* | *夜
night
HSK 2
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
tonight / this evening
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
very late at night
HSK 7-9
day and night / around the clock
HSK 6
Silent Night (Christmas carol) / Christmas Eve
to book a service for overnight use (karaoke room, internet café etc) / (euphemistic) to hire a companion or escort for the night
every night
to stay up late or all night
HSK 7-9
the middle of the night
night
HSK 6
day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop
HSK 7-9
midnight snack / late-night snack
last night
moonlit night
the whole night
HSK 7-9
starlit night / by night; under the night sky; through the night
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亱* | 亱* | *亱
variant of
HSK 2
the whole night / all through the night
to get up in the night to urinate
on that night
that very night / the same night
first half of the night / time before midnight
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering
to stay up through the night (idiom)
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
lunar New Year's Eve
nighttime snack / late-night supper
day and night / round-the-clock
midnight
to stay up all night; to pull an all-nighter
River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚
Lantern Festival / night of 15th of first lunar month / see also 元宵
at nightfall
night patrol / to make nightly rounds
to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil
all through the night / overnight
wedding night
in the dead of night (idiom)
on night duty
day and night / regardless of the time of day or night
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
to be on night duty
first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)
nightly
Halloween
(literary) late at night; in the dead of night
the eve / the night before
(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
(literary) nightfall / night
overnight / of the previous day
(literary) late at night
white night
the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜, early morning)
day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
Halloween (abbr. for 萬聖節前夜|万圣节前夜)
morning and night / always / at all times
midnight
to stay overnight
curfew
to spend the night / overnight
all night long
(idiom) in the middle of the night
to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour


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