夜

See also: 亱

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

夜 (Kangxi radical 36, 夕+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓大 (YONK), four-corner 0024₇, composition ⿱亠⿰亻⿴夂丶)

Derived characters

• 液

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		夜
alternative forms		亱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (亦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
夜	*laːɡs
鵺	*laːɡs
迹	*ʔsleːɡ
跡	*ʔsleːɡ
亦	*laːɡ
弈	*laːɡ
奕	*laːɡ
帟	*laːɡ
腋	*laːɡ
掖	*laːɡ
焲	*laːɡ
液	*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, 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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 夜

1. night

   See also: 晚

2. occurring during the night
3. (Cantonese) late (in the night)

   我呢排晚晚都好夜先返屋企。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   ngo⁵ ni¹ paai⁴ maan⁵ maan⁵ dou¹ hou² je⁶ sin¹ faan¹ uk¹ kei^5-2. [Jyutping]

   Recently, I've been going home quite late in the night.

4. Classifier for the number of nights.

   三天兩夜／三天两夜  ―  sān tiān liǎng yè  ―  three days and two nights

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

夜

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. The night.

Readings

• Go-on: や (ya)
• Kan-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
• A collection of old reports and citations show that the や reading had been a Japanese-applied reading instead of an imported one.
  • The や reading of 夜 has been said to a part of ancient Japan before the influx of Chinese pronunciations. There have also been collected reports about this in the linguistics department in the University of Tokyo.

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
夜
よる Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

夜(よる) • (yoru) 

1. night; the evening

   夜(よる)が明(あ)けて、月(つき)が沈(しず)んで、今日(きょう)も地球(ちきゅう)が回(まわ)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(よる)のカフェテラス』

   “Yoru no Kafe Terasu”

   Cafe Terrace at Night

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
夜
よ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

夜(よ) • (yo) 

1. (literary) night; the evening

   『真夏(まなつ)の夜(よ)の夢(ゆめ)』

   “Manatsu no Yo no Yume”

   A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Korean

Hanja

夜 • (ya) (hangeul 야, McCune–Reischauer ya)

1. night

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Kanji

夜 (kun'yomi いぃーる, romaji yīru)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yoru, “night”).

Noun

夜 (hiragana いぃーる, romaji yīru)

1. night

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Okinawan

Kanji

夜 (kun'yomi ゆる, romaji yuru, kun'yomi ゆー, romaji yū)

Etymology 1

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yoru, “night”).

Counter

夜 (hiragana ゆる, romaji yuru)

1. nights

   一夜(ちゅゆる)

   chuyuru

   one night

   二夜(たゆる)

   tayuru

   two nights

Noun

夜 (hiragana ゆる, romaji yuru)

1. night

Etymology 2

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yo, “night”).

Noun

夜 (hiragana ゆー, romaji yū)

1. night

References

• Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) [Dictionary of the Okinawan Language] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 夜 (dạ, dà)

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Yonaguni

Kanji

夜 (kun'yomi どぅる, romaji duru)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yoru, “night”).

Noun

夜 (hiragana どぅる, romaji duru)

1. night