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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
- —十二夜Twelfth Night; Epiphany Eve
- —初夜権right of first night; jus primae noctis; droit du seigneur
- —夜道怪folk monster who wanders at night injuring and kidnapping people
- —深夜便overnight transportation (train service, flight, etc.); late-night departure; red-eye flight
- —深夜帯late-night time slot
- —犬夜叉Inuyasha (manga series)
- —十二夜Twelfth Night (comedy by William Shakespeare); Twelfth Night, or What You Will
- —一日一夜all day and night
- —一夜乞食riches to rags; person turned into a beggar overnight
- —一夜造りbuilt in a night; stopgap; hastily written
- —一夜漬けlast-minute cramming; overnight cramming; (vegetables) pickled just overnight
- —昼夜兼行around-the-clock; (working) day and night
- —夜会結びevening hairdo
- —夜間営業open at night
- —夜間勤務night work
- —夜間撮影night photography
- —夜間中学evening middle school
- —夜光時計luminous watch; luminous clock
- —夜光塗料luminous paint
- —夜郎自大throwing one's weight around without knowing one's limitations; Yelang thinks too highly of itself