半夜

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	night
simp. and trad. (半夜)		半	夜
anagram		夜半

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bànyè

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄧㄝˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): бане (bani͡ə, III-I) / бане (bani͡ə, III-III)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³ je⁶ / bun³ je^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pan-ya
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): poàn-iā / pòaⁿ-iā

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànyè
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànyè
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-yeh⁴
    • Yale: bàn-yè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannyeh
    • Palladius: банье (banʹje)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛ⁵¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: бане (bani͡ə, III-I) / бане (bani͡ə, III-III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pæ̃⁴⁴ iə²⁴/, /pæ̃⁴⁴ iə⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³ je⁶ / bun³ je^6-2
    • Yale: bun yeh / bun yé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³ je⁶ / bun³ je^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun³ yé⁶ / bun³ yé^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³³ jɛː²²/, /puːn³³ jɛː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pan-ya
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban ia
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban⁴ ya⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pan⁵⁵ i̯a⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pan-ya
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban (r)ia
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban⁴ ya⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pan⁵⁵ (j)i̯a⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poàn-iā
    • Tâi-lô: puàn-iā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poarn'ia
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puan⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ ia⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /puan²¹⁻⁵³ ia²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-iā
    • Tâi-lô: puànn-iā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoaria
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ ia²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ ia⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 半夜

1. midnight
2. late at night; deep of the night; the middle of the night

Synonyms

• (midnight): (literary) 夜半 (yèbàn), (Hakka) 半夜仔, (Min) 半暝
• (late at night): 深夜 (shēnyè), (Min) 半暝

Derived terms

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