夜 yè
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yè
noun
night
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: (Barnes 2007, p. 31; Guoyu '夜' n 1; Unihan '夜') -
yè
noun
dark
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '夜' n 2; Unihan '夜') -
yè
verb
by night
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 夜行 (Guoyu '夜' v; Unihan '夜')
Contained in
- 连夜(連夜) all through the night ; several nights in succession
- 夜神仙 night owl; late sleeper
- 夜校 evening school; night school
- 夜晚 night
- 卜昼卜夜(卜晝卜夜) day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
- 五夜 five watches
- 埃及夜鹰(埃及夜鷹) Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius)
- 昼夜(晝夜) day and night ; continuously
- 禁夜 curfew
- 宵夜 midnight snack; late-night snack
- 夜幕降临(夜幕降臨) nightfall
- 白夜 white night
- 屋漏更遭连夜雨(屋漏更遭連夜雨) when it rains, it pours
- 夜盆儿(夜盆兒) chamber pot
- 熬夜 to stay up all night
- 夜间(夜間) evening; nighttime
- 夙夜 morning and night; always; at all times ; first light [before dawn]; last night [after sunset]
- 子夜 midnight
- 夜行军(夜行軍) a night march
- 夜不归宿(夜不歸宿) to stay out all night
- 过夜(過夜) to spend the night; overnight
- 夜长梦多(夜長夢多) a long night with many dreams; much can happen over a long period
- 一夜露水 one-night stand; ephemeral
- 长夜难明(長夜難明) many nights under a harsh moon; long years of oppression
- 侵夜 nightfall; night
- 夜盲症 night blindness; nyctalopia
- 夜柔吠陀 Yajurveda
- 夜空 night sky
- 整夜 the whole night; all through the night
- 以夜继日(以夜繼日) to continue night and day
- 夜幕 curtain of night; gathering darkness
- 夜宵儿(夜宵兒) midnight snack
- 夜色 night scene; the dim light of night
- 夜风(夜風) the night breeze
- 夜宵 midnight snack
- 夜鹰(夜鷹) nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae)
- 夜壶(夜壺) chamber pot
- 彻夜不眠(徹夜不眠) to be sleepless all night
- 夜曲 nocturne
- 夜招待酒会(夜招待酒會) evening cocktail reception
- 今夜 tonight; this evening
- 欧夜鹰(歐夜鷹) European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)
- 熬更守夜 to stay up through the night
- 夜半 midnight; the middle of the night
- 彻夜(徹夜) the whole night
- 前夜 the eve; the night before
Also contained in
飞行夜叉 、 六夜摩那埵 、 夜功河 、 春江花月夜 、 天方夜谭
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷三十六 志第十六: 天文下 Volume 36 Treatises 16: Astronomy 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 115
- 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 102
- 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 102
- 卷六十六 志第十九 五行四 Volume 66 Treatises 19: Five Elements 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 38
- 卷十一 本紀第十一: 代宗 Volume 11 Annals 11: Daizong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 31
- 卷十七下 本紀第十七下: 文宗下 Volume 17 Annals 17: Wenzong 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 28
- 卷三百五十三 列傳第一百十二 何㮚 孫傅 陳過庭 張叔夜 聶昌 張閣 張近 鄭僅 宇文昌齡子:常 許幾 程之邵 龔原 崔公度 蒲卣 Volume 353 Biographies 112: He Li, Sun Fu, Chen Guoting, Zhang Shuye, Nie Chang, Zhang Ge, Zhang Jin, Zheng Jin, Yu Wenchangling and son: Chang, Xu Ji, Cheng ZhiShao, Gong Yuan, Cui Gongdu, Pu You History of Song 宋史 — count: 27
- 卷二十九 志第五 五行二 Volume 29 Treatises 5: Five Elements 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 27
- 卷19 志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 26
- 卷十九 志第十一 五行 Volume 19 Treatises 11: Five Elements Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 25
Collocations
- 夜姑 (夜姑) 與公鳥之臣申夜姑 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 11
- 夜中 (夜中) 夜中 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 6
- 师夜 (師夜) 楚師夜遁 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
- 终夜 (終夜) 亦終夜有聲 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
- 夜寝 (夜寢) 夜寢夙興 — Mozi 墨子, 卷二 尚賢中 Book 2 - Exaltation of the Virtuous II — count: 4
- 夜三 (夜三) 凡軍之夜三鼜 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites — count: 3
- 夜缒 (夜縋) 夜縋而出 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
- 三夜 (三夜) 三夜不息燭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 3
- 夜遁 (夜遁) 楚師夜遁 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3
- 农夫夜 (農夫夜) 農夫夜寢蚤起不待見使 — Guanzi 管子, 山至數第七十六 Chapter 76: Travelling to the Mountains — count: 2