半夜 bànyè
bànyè
noun
midnight; in the middle of the night
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Time
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '半夜'; Guoyu '半夜')
Contained in
- 深更半夜 in the dead of night
- 大半夜 the middle of the night
- 黑天半夜 the black sky of midnight; very late at 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.
- 半夜三更 in the depth of night; late at night
- 三更半夜 in the depth of the night; very late at night
- 上半夜 first half of the night; time before midnight
- 前半夜 first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第五十五回 Chapter 55 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
- 第一百十五回 Chapter 115 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第十六回 Chapter 16 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
- 第十三回 Chapter 13 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
- 卷五十五 志第七: 曆四 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Calendar 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 2
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 2
- 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第四十六回 Chapter 46 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
Collocations
- 半夜裏 (半夜裏) 卻比半夜裏拾金寶的一般歡喜 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十四回 Chapter 24 — count: 11
- 半夜酒 (半夜酒) 管待小校喫了半夜酒 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 9
- 到半夜 (到半夜) 喫到半夜 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七十三回 Chapter 73 — count: 5
- 半夜里 (半夜裡) 想是半夜裡去了 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十三回 Chapter 23 — count: 3
- 半夜分 (半夜分) 以半夜分便為日出分 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷五十五 志第七: 曆四 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Calendar 4 — count: 2
- 半夜话 (半夜話) 說了半夜話 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十五回 Chapter 15 — count: 2
- 半夜方 (半夜方) 眾頭領飲酒至半夜方散 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十回 Chapter 20 — count: 2
- 半夜时分 (半夜時分) 嚷到半夜時分 — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 第九十五回 Chapter 95 — count: 2
- 黄昏半夜 (黃昏半夜) 黃昏半夜來敲門打戶 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十七回 Chapter 37 — count: 2
- 半夜时候 (半夜時候) 直睡到半夜時候才醒 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第三十回 Chapter 30 — count: 2