夜
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: 亱
Translingual[edit]
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Han character[edit]
夜 (radical 36 夕+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓大 (YONK), four-corner 00247)
Derived characters[edit]
References[edit]
- 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
Chinese[edit]
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夜 | |
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| alt. forms | 亱 | |
Glyph origin[edit]
| Historical forms of the character 夜
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laːɡs): phonetic 亦 (OC *laːɡ) + 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.
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): je6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ya
- Min Nan (POJ): iā
- Wu (Wiktionary): hhia (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
- Wade-Giles: yeh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
- IPA (key): /i̯ɛ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: je6
- Yale: yeh
- Cantonese Pinyin: je6
- IPA (key): /jɛː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ya
- Hakka Romanization System: ia
- Hagfa Pinyim: ya4
- IPA: /i̯a⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ya
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)ia
- Hagfa Pinyim: ya4
- IPA: /(j)i̯a⁵⁵/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iā
- Tâi-lô: iā
- Phofsit Daibuun: ia
- IPA (Taipei): /ia³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ia²²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: hhia (T3)
- IPA (key): /ɦiᴀ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
Definitions[edit]
夜
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 夜
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
夜
- The night.
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 夜 |
| よる Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- night; the evening
- 夜が明けて、月が沈んで、今日も地球が回る。
- Yoru ga akete, tsuki ga shizunde, kyō mo chikyū ga mawaru.
- Dawn breaks (lit. night ends), the moon sinks, and today as well the Earth revolves.
- 『夜のカフェテラス』
- "Yoru no Kafe Terasu"
- Cafe Terrace at Night
- 夜が明けて、月が沈んで、今日も地球が回る。
Etymology 2[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 夜 |
| よ Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
Noun[edit]
- (literary) night; the evening
- 『真夏の夜の夢』
- "Manatsu no Yo no Yume"
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 『真夏の夜の夢』
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
夜 • (ya) (hangeul 야, McCune-Reischauer ya)
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Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
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