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夜 kanji
night, evening
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ヤ
Kun readings
よよる
Words with 夜
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —通夜見舞いsending food to someone's house on the night of a wake
- —深夜テレビlate-night television
- —夜叉五倍子Alnus firma (species of alder)
- —千一夜物語One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
- —夜間預金々庫night-deposit safe
- —夜間着陸訓練night landing practice; NLP
- —通夜振る舞いdinner and drinks served after a wake
- —夜陰に乗じてunder cover of night
- —昼夜を問わずday and night; around the clock
- —千夜一夜物語One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
- —昼夜を分かたずby day and night; day and night; round the clock
- —夜間外出禁止令curfew
- —一夜を共にするto spend a night together
- —外面如菩薩内心如夜叉looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
- —外面似菩薩内心如夜叉looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
- —夜闇dead of night; shades of night; black of night
- —夜坐nocturnal seated Zen meditation (esp. around 8pm); sitting at night
- —闇夜dark night
- —一夜漬last-minute cramming; overnight cramming; (vegetables) pickled just overnight
- —常夜燈light that stays on all night; lamp that is kept burning all night; nightlight