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埃及夜鷹 埃及夜鹰 [[Ai1ji2 ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius)/ 974 2
熬更守夜 熬更守夜 [ao2 geng1 shou3 ye4] /to stay up through the night (idiom)/ 5123 1
熬夜 熬夜 [ao2 ye4] /to stay up late or all night/ 5875 1
巴山夜雨 巴山夜雨 [Ba1 shan1 ye4 yu3] /rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land/Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution/ 3159 1
白夜 白夜 [bai2 ye4] /white night/ 7119 1
半夜 半夜 [ban4 ye4] /midnight/in the middle of the night/ 7119 1
半夜三更 半夜三更 [[ban4ye4-san1geng1]] /see 三更半夜[san1geng1-ban4ye4]/ 693 2
包夜 包夜 [[bao1ye4]] /to book a service for overnight use (karaoke room, internet café etc)/(euphemism) to hire a companion or escort for the night/ 99 2
俾夜作晝 俾夜作昼 [bi3 ye4 zuo4 zhou4] /lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil/work especially hard/ 5796 1
俾晝作夜 俾昼作夜 [bi3 zhou4 zuo4 ye4] /to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour/ 5796 1
卜晝卜夜 卜昼卜夜 [bu3 zhou4 bu3 ye4] /day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)/ 6648 1
不分晝夜 不分昼夜 [bu4 fen1 zhou4 ye4] /day and night/round-the-clock/ 6091 1
查夜 查夜 [cha2 ye4] /night patrol/to make nightly rounds/ 6144 1
長夜 长夜 [chang2 ye4] /long dark night/fig. long period of misery and oppression/ 5950 1
長夜漫漫 长夜漫漫 [chang2 ye4 man4 man4] /endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering/ 6351 1
長夜難明 长夜难明 [chang2 ye4 nan2 ming2] /lit. many nights under a harsh moon/long years of oppression (idiom)/ 6088 1
長尾夜鷹 长尾夜鹰 [[chang2wei3 ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) large-tailed nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus)/ 971 2
徹夜 彻夜 [che4 ye4] /the whole night/ 7068 1
徹夜不眠 彻夜不眠 [che4 ye4 bu4 mian2] /to be sleepless all night/ 7068 1
成夜 成夜 [cheng2 ye4] /all night long/ 5047 1
初夜 初夜 [chu1 ye4] /early evening/wedding night/(fig.) first sexual encounter/ 4254 1
春江花月夜 春江花月夜 [Chun1 jiang1 hua1 yue4 ye4] /River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚[Zhang1 Ruo4 xu1]/ 6074 1
大半夜 大半夜 [[da4ban4ye4]] /the middle of the night/ 130 2
大夜 大夜 [[da4ye4]] /the second half of the night; early morning (cf. 小夜[xiao3ye4], evening)/(fig.) eternal rest; death/(Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk/ 699 2
大夜班 大夜班 [[da4ye4ban1]] /graveyard shift; late night shift/ 699 2
當夜 当夜 [dang1 ye4] /on that night/ 4155 1
當夜 当夜 [dang4 ye4] /that very night/the same night/ 4155 1
洞房花燭夜 洞房花烛夜 [dong4 fang2 hua1 zhu2 ye4] /wedding night/ 6312 1
隔夜 隔夜 [ge2 ye4] /overnight/of the previous day/ 5800 1
過夜 过夜 [[guo4ye4]] /to spend the night/overnight/ 857 2
黑夜 黑夜 [hei1 ye4] /night/ 7119 1
黑天半夜 黑天半夜 [[hei1tian1-ban4ye4]] /(idiom) in the middle of the night/ 740 2
後半夜 后半夜 [[hou4ban4ye4]] /second half of the night (from midnight to sunrise)/ 108 2
極夜 极夜 [[ji2ye4]] /polar night/ 56 2
今夜 今夜 [jin1 ye4] /tonight/this evening/ 6158 1
禁夜 禁夜 [jin4 ye4] /curfew/ 6362 1
開夜車 开夜车 [kai1 ye4 che1] /to burn the midnight oil/to work late into the night/ 5699 1
藍鬚夜蜂虎 蓝须夜蜂虎 [[lan2xu1 ye4feng1hu3]] /(bird species of China) blue-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis athertoni)/ 969 2
連夜 连夜 [lian2 ye4] /that very night/through the night/for several nights in a row/ 4537 1
林夜鷹 林夜鹰 [[lin2ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis)/ 969 2
漏夜 漏夜 [[lou4ye4]] /(literary) late at night/ 353 2
漫漫長夜 漫漫长夜 [man4 man4 chang2 ye4] /endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering/ 6351 1
毛腿夜鷹 毛腿夜鹰 [[mao2tui3 ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) great eared nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis)/ 969 2
沒日沒夜 没日没夜 [mei2 ri4 mei2 ye4] /day and night/regardless of the time of day or night/ 6674 1
每夜 每夜 [mei3 ye4] /nightly/ 7119 1
明月 明月 [ming2 yue4] /bright moon/refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark/CL:輪|轮[lun2]/ 6383 1
母夜叉 母夜叉 [mu3 ye4 cha1] /witch/shrew/vixen/ 7119 1
年夜 年夜 [nian2 ye4] /lunar New Year's Eve/ 3727 1
年夜飯 年夜饭 [[nian2ye4fan4]] /reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)/ 394 2
歐夜鷹 欧夜鹰 [[ou1ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)/ 969 2
平安夜 平安夜 [Ping2 an1 Ye4] /Silent Night (Christmas carol)/Christmas Eve/ 4495 1
平生不做虧心事,半夜敲門心不驚 平生不做亏心事,半夜敲门心不惊 [ping2 sheng1 bu4 zuo4 kui1 xin1 shi4 , ban4 ye4 qiao1 men2 xin1 bu4 jing1] /He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night./Rest with a clear conscience./ 6079 1
破屋又遭連夜雨 破屋又遭连夜雨 [po4 wu1 you4 zao1 lian2 ye4 yu3] /see 屋漏偏逢連夜雨|屋漏偏逢连夜雨[wu1 lou4 pian1 feng2 lian2 ye4 yu3]/ 4539 1
普通夜鷹 普通夜鹰 [[pu3tong1 ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)/ 969 2
起夜 起夜 [[qi3ye4]] /to get up in the night to urinate/ 727 2
前夜 前夜 [qian2 ye4] /the eve/the night before/ 6762 1
前半夜 前半夜 [[qian2ban4ye4]] /first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)/ 108 2
侵夜 侵夜 [qin1 ye4] /(literary) nightfall/night/ 4673 1
犬夜叉 犬夜叉 [Quan3 ye4 cha4] /Inuyasha, fictional character/ 6070 1
人無橫財不富,馬無夜草不肥 人无横财不富,马无夜草不肥 [[ren2 wu2 heng4cai2 bu4 fu4, ma3 wu2 ye4cao3 bu4 fei2]] /(saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc), just as a horse cannot get fat without night feed/ 528 2
日夜 日夜 [ri4 ye4] /day and night/around the clock/ 7119 1
日夜兼程 日夜兼程 [ri4 ye4 jian1 cheng2] /to travel day and night/ 6042 1
入夜 入夜 [[ru4ye4]] /at nightfall/ 525 2
三更半夜 三更半夜 [[san1geng1-ban4ye4]] /(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night/ 703 2
上夜 上夜 [shang4 ye4] /to be on night duty/ 6156 1
上半夜 上半夜 [[shang4ban4ye4]] /first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)/ 108 2
深更半夜 深更半夜 [shen1 geng1 ban4 ye4] /in the dead of night (idiom)/ 6118 1
深夜 深夜 [shen1 ye4] /very late at night/ 7119 1
守夜 守夜 [shou3 ye4] /to be on all-night duty/to be on night watch/to keep a vigil/ 3229 1
刷夜 刷夜 [[shua1ye4]] /to stay up all night; to pull an all-nighter/ 921 2
夙興夜寐 夙兴夜寐 [su4 xing1 ye4 mei4] /to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard/to study diligently/to burn the candle at both ends/ 6351 1
夙夜 夙夜 [su4 ye4] /morning and night/always/at all times/ 6762 1
宿夜 宿夜 [su4 ye4] /to stay overnight/ 6720 1
夙夜匪懈 夙夜匪懈 [su4 ye4 fei3 xie4] /to work from morning to night (idiom)/ 6351 1
天方夜譚 天方夜谭 [Tian1 fang1 Ye4 tan2] /The Arabian Nights (classic story)/ 4767 1
天方夜譚 天方夜谭 [tian1 fang1 ye4 tan2] /fantasy story/ 4767 1
挑燈夜戰 挑灯夜战 [tiao3 deng1 ye4 zhan4] /to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night/to burn the midnight oil/ 6351 1
通夜 通夜 [tong1 ye4] /all through the night/overnight/ 6580 1
萬聖節前夜 万圣节前夜 [Wan4 sheng4 jie2 Qian2 ye4] /Halloween/ 1750 1
萬聖夜 万圣夜 [Wan4 sheng4 ye4] /Halloween (abbr. for 萬聖節前夜|万圣节前夜[Wan4 sheng4 jie2 Qian2 ye4])/ 1750 1
屋漏更遭連夜雨 屋漏更遭连夜雨 [wu1 lou4 geng4 zao1 lian2 ye4 yu3] /when it rains, it pours (idiom)/ 4539 1
屋漏偏逢連夜雨 屋漏偏逢连夜雨 [wu1 lou4 pian1 feng2 lian2 ye4 yu3] /when it rains, it pours (idiom)/ 4539 1
午夜 午夜 [wu3 ye4] /midnight/ 7119 1
下半夜 下半夜 [[xia4ban4ye4]] /second half of the night (from midnight to sunrise)/ 108 2
宵夜 宵夜 [xiao1 ye4] /midnight snack/late-night snack/ 6689 1
消夜 消夜 [xiao1 ye4] /nighttime snack/late-night supper/ 5137 1
小夜曲 小夜曲 [xiao3 ye4 qu3] /serenade/ 7119 1
小年夜 小年夜 [[xiao3nian2ye4]] /(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve/(Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian)/(old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)/ 901 2
小夜 小夜 [[xiao3ye4]] /the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜[da4ye4], early morning)/ 699 2
小夜班 小夜班 [[xiao3ye4ban1]] /evening shift; early night shift/ 699 2
星夜 星夜 [[xing1ye4]] /starlit night/by night; under the night sky; through the night/ 692 2
雪夜 雪夜 [[xue3ye4]] /snowy night/ 133 2
[ye4] /night/ 7119 1
[ye4] /variant of 夜[ye4]/ 4893 1
夜班 夜班 [ye4 ban1] /night shift/ 6937 1
夜半 夜半 [ye4 ban4] /midnight/ 6937 1
夜不閉戶 夜不闭户 [ye4 bu4 bi4 hu4] /lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society/ 6351 1
夜不成眠 夜不成眠 [ye4 bu4 cheng2 mian2] /to be unable to sleep at night/ 5181 1
夜不歸宿 夜不归宿 [ye4 bu4 gui1 su4] /to stay out all night (idiom)/ 6168 1
夜叉 夜叉 [ye4 cha1] /yaksha (malevolent spirit) (loanword)/(fig.) ferocious-looking person/ 4338 1
夜大 夜大 [ye4 da4] /evening college (abbr. for 夜大學|夜大学[ye4 da4 xue2])/ 2245 1
夜大學 夜大学 [ye4 da4 xue2] /evening college/ 6548 1
夜店 夜店 [ye4 dian4] /nightclub/ 5240 1
夜光 夜光 [ye4 guang1] /luminous/ 7119 1
夜壺 夜壶 [ye4 hu2] /chamber pot/ 6115 1
夜間 夜间 [ye4 jian1] /nighttime/evening or night (e.g. classes)/ 6956 1
夜間部 夜间部 [ye4 jian1 bu4] /(Tw) evening program (at a college)/night school/ 2256 1
夜驚 夜惊 [ye4 jing1] /night terror/sleep terror/ 4704 1
夜景 夜景 [ye4 jing3] /nightscape/ 7051 1
夜開花 夜开花 [ye4 kai1 hua1] /bottle gourd (i.e. 瓠瓜[hu4 gua1])/ 2487 1
夜空 夜空 [ye4 kong1] /night sky/ 7119 1
夜闌 夜阑 [ye4 lan2] /late at night/in the dead of night/ 6193 1
夜闌人靜 夜阑人静 [ye4 lan2 ren2 jing4] /the still of the night (idiom)/late at night/ 4495 1
夜闌珊 夜阑珊 [ye4 lan2 shan1] /late at night/ 6193 1
夜郎 夜郎 [Ye4 lang2] /small barbarian kingdom in southern China during the Han dynasty/ 5729 1
夜郎自大 夜郎自大 [Ye4 lang2 zi4 da4] /lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom)/fig. foolish conceit/ 5729 1
夜裡 夜里 [ye4 li5] /during the night/at night/nighttime/ 5556 1
夜盲症 夜盲症 [ye4 mang2 zheng4] /night blindness/nyctalopia/ 7119 1
夜貓子 夜猫子 [ye4 mao1 zi5] /owl/(fig.) night owl/ 6861 1
夜幕 夜幕 [ye4 mu4] /curtain of night/gathering darkness/ 6819 1
夜幕低垂 夜幕低垂 [ye4 mu4 di1 chui2] /darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc)/ 4656 1
夜幕降臨 夜幕降临 [ye4 mu4 jiang4 lin2] /nightfall/ 6599 1
夜鳥 夜鸟 [ye4 niao3] /nocturnal bird/ 4998 1
夜盆兒 夜盆儿 [ye4 pen2 r5] /chamber pot/ 4989 1
夜曲 夜曲 [ye4 qu3] /nocturne (music)/ 5274 1
夜色蒼茫 夜色苍茫 [ye4 se4 cang1 mang2] /gathering dusk/ 6494 1
夜深人靜 夜深人静 [ye4 shen1 ren2 jing4] /in the dead of night (idiom)/ 6117 1
夜神仙 夜神仙 [ye4 shen2 xian1] /night owl/late sleeper/ 5921 1
夜生活 夜生活 [ye4 sheng1 huo2] /night life/ 6749 1
夜市 夜市 [ye4 shi4] /night market/ 7051 1
夜視 夜视 [ye4 shi4] /night vision/ 5128 1
夜視鏡 夜视镜 [ye4 shi4 jing4] /night vision device/ 5128 1
夜視儀 夜视仪 [ye4 shi4 yi2] /night vision device/ 5128 1
夜晚 夜晚 [ye4 wan3] /night/CL:個|个[ge4]/ 6383 1
夜襲 夜袭 [ye4 xi2] /night attack/ 6350 1
夜宵 夜宵 [ye4 xiao1] /midnight snack/ 6497 1
夜梟 夜枭 [ye4 xiao1] /owl/ 5077 1
夜消 夜消 [ye4 xiao1] /variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1]/ 5077 1
夜宵兒 夜宵儿 [ye4 xiao1 r5] /erhua variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1]/ 5110 1
夜校 夜校 [ye4 xiao4] /evening school/night school/ 6903 1
夜行 夜行 [ye4 xing2] /night walk/night departure/nocturnal/ 6952 1
夜行軍 夜行军 [ye4 xing2 jun1] /a night march/ 6889 1
夜行晝伏 夜行昼伏 [ye4 xing2 zhou4 fu2] /to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)/ 6088 1
夜夜 夜夜 [ye4 ye4] /every night/ 6022 1
夜以繼日 夜以继日 [ye4 yi3 ji4 ri4] /night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort/ 6351 1
夜鶯 夜莺 [ye4 ying1] /nightingale/ 7119 1
夜鷹 夜鹰 [ye4 ying1] /nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae)/ 4238 1
夜遊 夜游 [ye4 you2] /to go to some place at night/to take a night trip to (a place)/to sleepwalk/ 2696 1
夜遊症 夜游症 [ye4 you2 zheng4] /somnambulism/sleepwalking/ 2695 1
夜場 夜场 [[ye4chang3]] /evening show (at a theater etc)/nighttime entertainment venue (bar, nightclub, disco etc)/ 827 2
夜床服務 夜床服务 [[ye4chuang2 fu2wu4]] /(hospitality industry) turndown service/ 391 2
夜飯 夜饭 [[ye4fan4]] /(dialect) dinner; supper/ 63 2
夜來香 夜来香 [[ye4lai2xiang1]] /tuberose (Agave amica)/night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) (aka 夜香木[ye4xiang1mu4])/ 850 2
夜鷺 夜鹭 [[ye4lu4]] /(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)/ 967 2
夜盲 夜盲 [[ye4mang2]] /night blindness/ 824 2
夜跑 夜跑 [[ye4pao3]] /to go for a nighttime run/ 260 2
夜色 夜色 [[ye4se4]] /night scene/the dim light of night/ 824 2
夜香木 夜香木 [[ye4xiang1mu4]] /night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum)/ 850 2
夜行性 夜行性 [[ye4xing2xing4]] /nocturnality; nocturnal/ 533 2
夜總會 夜总会 [[ye4zong3hui4]] /nightclub; nightspot/ 850 2
一夜爆紅 一夜爆红 [yi1 ye4 bao4 hong2] /to become popular overnight/ 4797 1
一夜露水 一夜露水 [yi1 ye4 lu4 shui5] /one-night stand/ephemeral/ 1015 1
一夜情 一夜情 [yi1 ye4 qing2] /one night stand/ 6693 1
一夜之間 一夜之间 [yi1 ye4 zhi1 jian1] /(lit. and fig.) overnight/ 2400 1
一千零一夜 一千零一夜 [[Yi1qian1ling2yi1ye4]] /One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights/ 178 2
一夜無眠 一夜无眠 [[yi1ye4-wu2mian2]] /to have a sleepless night/ 832 2
夤夜 夤夜 [[yin2ye4]] /(literary) late at night; in the dead of night/ 347 2
雨夜 雨夜 [[yu3ye4]] /rainy night/ 149 2
元宵 元宵 [yuan2 xiao1] /Lantern Festival/night of the 15th of the first lunar month/see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4]/sticky rice dumplings/ 5914 1
元夜 元夜 [yuan2 ye4] /Lantern Festival/night of 15th of first lunar month/see also 元宵[yuan2 xiao1]/ 5353 1
月夜 月夜 [[yue4ye4]] /moonlit night/ 133 2
張若虛 张若虚 [Zhang1 Ruo4 xu1] /Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜/ 6692 1
整夜 整夜 [zheng3 ye4] /the whole night/all through the night/ 6580 1
值夜 值夜 [zhi2 ye4] /on night duty/ 6763 1
中亞夜鷹 中亚夜鹰 [[Zhong1ya4 ye4ying1]] /(bird species of China) Vaurie's nightjar (Caprimulgus centralasicus)/ 967 2
仲夏夜之夢 仲夏夜之梦 [Zhong4 xia4 ye4 zhi1 meng4] /Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4]/ 6422 1
周扒皮 周扒皮 [Zhou1 ba1 pi2] /Zhou the exploiter, archetypal character in short story 半夜雞叫|半夜鸡叫[ban4 ye4 ji1 jiao4]/ 5522 1
晝伏夜出 昼伏夜出 [zhou4 fu2 ye4 chu1] /nocturnal/to hide by day and come out at night/ 6905 1
晝夜 昼夜 [zhou4 ye4] /day and night/period of 24 hours/continuously, without stop/ 6860 1
晝夜節律 昼夜节律 [zhou4 ye4 jie2 lü4] /circadian rhythm/ 4819 1
晝夜平分點 昼夜平分点 [zhou4 ye4 ping2 fen1 dian3] /the equinox/ 7119 1
子夜 子夜 [zi3 ye4] /midnight/ 6938 1
棕夜鷺 棕夜鹭 [[zong1ye4lu4]] /(bird species of China) nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)/ 809 2
昨夜 昨夜 [[zuo2ye4]] /last night/ 525 2

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