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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
- —暗夜dark night
- —極夜polar night
- —秋夜autumn night; fall evening
- —夜警The Night Watch (1642 painting by Rembrandt)
- —お七夜name-giving ceremony
- —一昨夜night before last
- —一昼夜whole day and night; 24 hours
- —十五夜night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
- —十三夜13th day (of the moon); the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month
- —不夜城nightless gay quarters; nightless city
- —夜会服evening dress
- —夜学校night school
- —夜間部night-school session; evening classes
- —夜光虫Noctiluca scintillans (luminescent species of dinoflagellate)
- —夜想曲nocturne
- —夜盗虫cutworm; army worm
- —夜尿症bed-wetting; enuresis
- —夜盲症night blindness
- —一夜妻temporary consort; prostitute
- —終夜灯night light