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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
- —連日連夜every day and every night
- —百鬼夜行nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
- —一昨々夜two nights before last
- —終夜営業(a business) open all night
- —終夜運転all-night service
- —深夜放送late-night broadcasting
- —八十八夜eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
- —一夜大尽rags to riches; overnight millionaire
- —如法暗夜total (utter) darkness
- —昼夜逆転one's days and nights being reversed
- —無明長夜the long night of spiritual darkness
- —除夜の鐘temple bell rung 108 times on New Year's Eve
- —夜間高校evening high school
- —夜行列車night train
- —金剛夜叉Vajrayaksa
- —一夜干しfish salted and dried overnight
- —深夜残業late-night overtime
- —夜行動物nocturnal animal
- —新婚初夜wedding night
- —飛行夜叉flying yaksha