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
- 日夜不处(日夜不處) without halting day or night
- 棕夜鹭(棕夜鷺) rufous night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
- 夜燕 bat ; an insect that eats lychee and longyan
- 夜宵 midnight snack
- 前半夜 first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)
- 夜以继昼(夜以繼晝) to continue night and day
- 长夜漫漫(長夜漫漫) endless night; long suffering
- 守夜 to be on all-night duty; to be on night watch; to keep a vigil
- 夜不归宿(夜不歸宿) to stay out all night
- 夜行昼伏(夜行晝伏) to travel at night and lie low by day
- 夜猫子(夜貓子) owl; (fig.) night owl
- 夜长梦多(夜長夢多) a long night with many dreams; much can happen over a long period
- 夜消 midnight snack
- 成夜 all night long
- 夜里(夜裡) nighttime
- 夜场(夜場) evening show (at theater etc)
- 夜枭(夜梟) owl
- 夜幕降临(夜幕降臨) nightfall
- 黑天半夜 the black sky of midnight; very late at night
- 昼夜节律(晝夜節律) circadian rhythm
- 彻夜不眠(徹夜不眠) to be sleepless all night
- 母夜叉 witch; shrew; vixen
- 彻夜(徹夜) the whole night
- 后夜(後夜) early hours of the morning
- 夜神仙 night owl; late sleeper
- 漫漫长夜(漫漫長夜) endless night; long suffering
- 查夜 night patrol; to make nightly rounds
- 夜校 evening school; night school
- 昼夜平分点(晝夜平分點) the equinox
- 深夜 late at night
- 年夜 lunar New Year's Eve
- 禁夜 curfew
- 前夜 the eve; the night before
- 夜不闭户(夜不閉戶) doors not locked at night; stable society
- 夙夜忧叹(夙夜憂嘆) my nights were restless
- 今夜 tonight; this evening
- 半夜 midnight; in the middle of the night
- 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊(平生不做虧心事，半夜敲門心不驚) He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
- 夜风(夜風) the night breeze
- 宿夜 to stay overnight
- 长夜饮(長夜飲) all night banquet
- 马无夜草不肥，人无外快不富(馬無夜草不肥，人無外快不富) a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income
- 夜招待酒会(夜招待酒會) evening cocktail reception
- 夜深人静(夜深人靜) in the dead of night
- 大半夜 the middle of the night
- 夜惊(夜驚) night terror; sleep terror
- 夙夜匪懈 to work from morning to night
- 一夜爆红(一夜爆紅) to become popular overnight
- 夜游症(夜遊症) somnambulism; sleepwalking
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- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 狐夜 (狐夜) 使狐夜姑為將軍 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 2