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Dictionary: “夜”

夜

よる

night; evening

Example sentence

Don't you sleep well at night?

Kanji details

Kun/On information

夜
On
や
Kun
よ;よる
Stroke count
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・evening

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Related words to 夜

49 related words

夜間

やかん

→

night;nighttime

夜更かし

よふかし

→

staying up late;keeping late hours;sitting up late at night;nighthawk

夜学

やがく

→

night school;evening school;evening class

夜中

よなか

→

middle of the night;dead of night

夜勤

やきん

→

night duty;night shift;night work

夜景

やけい

→

night view;night skyline;nightscape

夜明け

よあけ

→

dawn;daybreak

夜空

よぞら

→

night sky

夜

よる

→

dinner

夜学

やがく

→

night study

夜行

やこう

→

walking around at night;night travel

夜行

やこう

→

night train

夜遊び

よあそび

→

nightlife;night amusements

夜道

よみち

→

street at night;making a night journey

夜な夜な

よなよな

→

every evening;night after night

夜食

やしょく

→

supper;night meal;late-night snack;"fourth meal";midnight snack

夜具

やぐ

→

bedding;bedclothes

夜通し

よどおし

→

all night;throughout the night

夜逃げ

よにげ

→

running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt);moonlight flit;skipping town overnight;upping and leaving under the cover of darkness;midnight vanishing act

夜曲

やきょく

→

nocturne

夜桜

よざくら

→

cherry blossoms at night

夜討ち

ようち

→

night attack

夜行性

やこうせい

→

nocturnality;nocturnal habits

夜更け

よふけ

→

late at night;small hours of the morning

夜会

やかい

→

evening party;soirée

夜叉

やしゃ

→

yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)

夜ご飯

よるごはん

→

dinner;evening meal

夜回り

よまわり

→

night watch;night watchman

夜半

やはん

→

middle of the night;dead of night

夜話

よばなし

→

night chat;tale told at night

夜見世

よみせ

→

night stall;night shop;night fair

夜話

よばなし

→

evening tea party (starting around 6pm)

夜すがら

よすがら

→

all night

夜光塗料

やこうとりょう

→

luminous paint

夜の目も寝ず

よのめもねず

→

sitting up all night;staying up all night

夜の目も寝ない

よのめもねない

→

staying up all night

夜光虫

やこうちゅう

→

Noctiluca scintillans (luminescent species of dinoflagellate)

夜っぴて

よっぴて

→

all night;throughout the night

夜の秋

よるのあき

→

cool, late summer night

夜の蝶

よるのちょう

→

hostess (at a bar, cabaret, etc.)

夜働き

よばたらき

→

night work

夜の街

よるのまち

→

city at night;town at night;streets at night

夜上がり

よあがり

→

weather clearing at night

夜光時計

やこうどけい

→

luminous watch;luminous clock

夜光

やこう

→

nocturnal luminescence;noctilucence

夜の女

よるのおんな

→

street prostitute;streetwalker;lady of the night

夜なべ

よなべ

→

night work

夜会服

やかいふく

→

evening dress

夜が明ける

よがあける

→

dawn breaks;day dawns