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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
- —昼夜帯women's obi with a different colour on each side (originally black and white)
- —常夜灯light that stays on all night; lamp that is kept burning all night; nightlight
- —熱帯夜sultry night; sweltering night; night in which temperature doesn't fall below 25 degrees C
- —深夜族the night owls
- —夜行性nocturnality; nocturnal habits
- —後夜祭closing party; closing event of a school, etc. festival
- —半通夜wake; vigil (that does not last the full night)
- —夜開草moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
- —お通夜all-night vigil over a body; wake
- —夜香木night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night
- —夜驚症night terror
- —十夜粥rice gruel served in temples for ten-night memorial services
- —十日夜Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)
- —夜光貝great green turban (Turbo marmoratus)
- —夜摩天heaven without fighting; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
- —夜光雲noctilucent clouds
- —深夜業night work
- —常夜鍋shabu-shabu-like hotpot dish with pork, spinach, etc.
- —前夜式wake
- —夜行便overnight flight; red-eye flight