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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
- —長夜long night; all night
- —良夜moonlit night
- —連夜every evening; night after night
- —当夜that night; tonight
- —聖夜Christmas Eve; holy night
- —即夜on the same night
- —明夜tomorrow night
- —夜直night duty; night shift
- —五夜division of the night (from approx. 7pm to 5am) into five 2-hour periods; the fifth of these periods (approx. 3am to 5am)
- —丙夜third division of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)
- —丁夜fourth division of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
- —戊夜fifth division of the night (approx. 3am to 5am)
- —夜蛾owlet moth (members of the family Noctuidae); noctuid
- —後夜period from midnight until the early morning; around 4am
- —中夜midnight period; midnight service; winter solstice
- —夜涼cool evening air; cooling oneself outside during the summer
- —十夜ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)
- —夜飯dinner
- —夜天night sky
- —夜座nocturnal seated Zen meditation (esp. around 8pm); sitting at night