夜

See also 亱

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 亦 + semantic 夕 (“moon”). The lower-right portion is a corruption/graphical variant of 夕; the remainder (亠 + 亻) is a reduced and distorted form of 亦, used phonetically.

Han character

夜 (radical 36 夕+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓大 (YONK), four-corner 0024₇)

1. night, dark
2. in night
3. by night

Related characters

• 亦

Derived characters

• 液

References

• KangXi: page 246, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5763
• Dae Jaweon: page 490, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 285, character 1
• Unihan data for U+591C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

夜 (Yale ye6)

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Japanese

Noun

夜 (hiragana よる, romaji yoru)
夜 (hiragana よ, romaji yo)

1. night; the evening

Kanji

夜 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: や (ya)
• Kun: よ (yo), よる (yoru)

Compounds

• 夜食 (やしょく, yashoku, “night meal, midnight snack”)
• 十六夜 (いざよい, izayoi): the sixteenth night of every month

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Korean

Hanja

夜 (hangeul 야, revised ya, McCune-Reischauer ya)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

夜 (pinyin yè (ye4), Wade-Giles yeh⁴)

Compounds

• 夜暗
• 夜班
• 夜班车
• 夜半
• 夜不闭户
• 夜不收
• 夜餐
• 夜叉
• 夜长梦多
• 夜场
• 夜车
• 夜工
• 夜活、夜活儿
• 夜间
• 夜课
• 夜空
• 夜郎自大
• 夜冷
• 夜里
• 夜晚
• 夜晚黑
• 夜袭
• 夜宵、夜消、夜宵儿、夜消儿
• 夜校
• 夜行
• 夜宴
• 夜夜
• 夜以继日
• 夜总会
• 夜战

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Vietnamese

Han character

夜 (dạ, dà)