| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 夜 | 亱 | yè | - variant of 夜[ye4] |
| 夜 | 夜 | yè | - night |
| 上夜 | 上夜 | shàngyè | - to be on night duty |
| 今夜 | 今夜 | jīnyè | - tonight - this evening |
| 侵夜 | 侵夜 | qīnyè | - (literary) nightfall - night |
| 值夜 | 值夜 | zhíyè | - on night duty |
| 元夜 | 元夜 | yuányè | - Lantern Festival - night of 15th of first lunar month - see also 元宵[yuan2 xiao1] |
| 入夜 | 入夜 | rùyè | - nightfall |
| 初夜 | 初夜 | chūyè | - early evening - wedding night - (fig.) first sexual encounter |
| 前夜 | 前夜 | qiányè | - the eve - the night before |
| 午夜 | 午夜 | wǔyè | - midnight |
| 半夜 | 半夜 | bànyè | - midnight - in the middle of the night |
| 夙夜 | 夙夜 | sùyè | - morning and night - always - at all times |
| 夜光 | 夜光 | yèguāng | - luminous |
| 夜半 | 夜半 | yèbàn | - midnight |
| 夜叉 | 夜叉 | yèchā | - yaksha (malevolent spirit) (loanword) - (fig.) ferocious-looking person |
| 夜场 | 夜場 | yèchǎng | - evening show (at theater etc) |
| 夜壶 | 夜壺 | yèhú | - chamber pot |
| 夜夜 | 夜夜 | yèyè | - every night |
| 夜宵 | 夜宵 | yèxiāo | - midnight snack |
| 夜市 | 夜市 | yèshì | - night market |
| 夜幕 | 夜幕 | yèmù | - curtain of night - gathering darkness |
| 夜店 | 夜店 | yèdiàn | - nightclub |
| 夜晚 | 夜晚 | yèwǎn | - night - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 夜景 | 夜景 | yèjǐng | - nightscape |
| 夜曲 | 夜曲 | yèqǔ | - nocturne (music) |
| 夜校 | 夜校 | yèxiào | - evening school - night school |
| 夜枭 | 夜梟 | yèxiāo | - owl |
| 夜消 | 夜消 | yèxiāo | - variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] |
| 夜班 | 夜班 | yèbān | - night shift |
| 夜空 | 夜空 | yèkōng | - night sky |
| 夜色 | 夜色 | yèsè | - night scene - the dim light of night |
| 夜行 | 夜行 | yèxíng | - night walk - night departure - nocturnal |
| 夜里 | 夜裡 | yèli | - during the night - at night - nighttime |
| 夜袭 | 夜襲 | yèxí | - night attack |
| 夜视 | 夜視 | yèshì | - night vision |
| 夜郎 | 夜郎 | Yèláng | - small barbarian kingdom in southern China during the Han dynasty |
| 夜间 | 夜間 | yèjiān | - nighttime - evening or night (e.g. classes) |
| 夜阑 | 夜闌 | yèlán | - late at night - in the dead of night |
| 夜惊 | 夜驚 | yèjīng | - night terror - sleep terror |
| 夜鸟 | 夜鳥 | yèniǎo | - nocturnal bird |
| 夜莺 | 夜鶯 | yèyīng | - nightingale |
| 夜鹰 | 夜鷹 | yèyīng | - nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae) |
| 夜鹭 | 夜鷺 | yèlù | - (Chinese bird species) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) |
| 子夜 | 子夜 | zǐyè | - midnight |
| 守夜 | 守夜 | shǒuyè | - night vigil |
| 宵夜 | 宵夜 | xiāoyè | - midnight snack - late-night snack |
| 宿夜 | 宿夜 | sùyè | - to stay overnight |
| 年夜 | 年夜 | niányè | - eve of lunar new year |
| 彻夜 | 徹夜 | chèyè | - the whole night |
| 成夜 | 成夜 | chéngyè | - all night long |
| 整夜 | 整夜 | zhěngyè | - the whole night - all through the night |
| 日夜 | 日夜 | rìyè | - day and night - around the clock |
| 昨夜 | 昨夜 | zuóyè | - last night |
| 昼夜 | 晝夜 | zhòuyè | - day and night - period of 24 hours - continuously, without stop |
| 月夜 | 月夜 | yuèyè | - moonlit night |
| 查夜 | 查夜 | cháyè | - night patrol - to make nightly rounds |
| 每夜 | 每夜 | měiyè | - nightly |
| 消夜 | 消夜 | xiāoyè | - nighttime snack - late-night supper |
| 深夜 | 深夜 | shēnyè | - very late at night |
| 熬夜 | 熬夜 | áoyè | - to stay up late or all night |
| 当夜 | 當夜 | dāngyè | - on that night |
| 当夜 | 當夜 | dàngyè | - that very night - the same night |
| 白夜 | 白夜 | báiyè | - white night |
| 禁夜 | 禁夜 | jìnyè | - curfew |
| 通夜 | 通夜 | tōngyè | - all through the night - overnight |
| 连夜 | 連夜 | liányè | - that very night - through the night - for several nights in a row |
| 过夜 | 過夜 | guòyè | - to spend the night - overnight |
| 长夜 | 長夜 | chángyè | - long dark night - fig. long period of misery and oppression |
| 隔夜 | 隔夜 | géyè | - overnight - of the previous day |
| 黑夜 | 黑夜 | hēiyè | - night |
| 一夜情 | 一夜情 | yīyèqíng | - one night stand |
| 上半夜 | 上半夜 | shàngbànyè | - first half of the night - time before midnight |
| 前半夜 | 前半夜 | qiánbànyè | - first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight) |
| 夜来香 | 夜來香 | yèláixiāng | - tuberose - Cestrum nocturnum, see also 夜香木 |
| 夜大学 | 夜大學 | yèdàxué | - evening college |
| 夜宵儿 | 夜宵兒 | yèxiāor | - erhua variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] |
| 夜生活 | 夜生活 | yèshēnghuó | - night life |
| 夜盆儿 | 夜盆兒 | yèpénr | - chamber pot |
| 夜盲症 | 夜盲症 | yèmángzhèng | - night blindness - nyctalopia |
| 夜神仙 | 夜神仙 | yèshénxiān | - night owl - late sleeper |
| 夜总会 | 夜總會 | yèzǒnghuì | - nightclub - nightspot |
| 夜行性 | 夜行性 | yèxíngxìng | - nocturnal |
| 夜行军 | 夜行軍 | yèxíngjūn | - a night march |
| 夜视仪 | 夜視儀 | yèshìyí | - night vision device |
| 夜视镜 | 夜視鏡 | yèshìjìng | - night vision device |
| 夜猫子 | 夜貓子 | yèmāozi | - owl - (fig.) night owl |
| 夜阑珊 | 夜闌珊 | yèlánshān | - late at night |
| 夜香木 | 夜香木 | yèxiāngmù | - Cestrum nocturnum |
| 小夜曲 | 小夜曲 | xiǎoyèqǔ | - serenade |
| 平安夜 | 平安夜 | PíngānYè | - Silent Night (Christmas carol) - Christmas Eve |
| 年夜饭 | 年夜飯 | niányèfàn | - New Year's Eve family dinner |
| 林夜鹰 | 林夜鷹 | línyèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis) |
| 棕夜鹭 | 棕夜鷺 | zōngyèlù | - (Chinese bird species) rufous night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) |
| 欧夜鹰 | 歐夜鷹 | Ōuyèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) |
| 母夜叉 | 母夜叉 | mǔyèchā | - witch - shrew - vixen |
| 犬夜叉 | 犬夜叉 | Quǎnyèchà | - Inuyasha, fictional character |
| 开夜车 | 開夜車 | kāiyèchē | - to burn the midnight oil - to work late into the night |
| 一夜爆红 | 一夜爆紅 | yīyèbàohóng | - to become popular overnight |
| 一夜露水 | 一夜露水 | yīyèlùshui | - one-night stand - ephemeral |
| 三更半夜 | 三更半夜 | sāngēngbànyè | - in the depth of the night - very late at night |
| 不分昼夜 | 不分晝夜 | bùfēnzhòuyè | - day and night - round-the-clock |
| 中亚夜鹰 | 中亞夜鷹 | Zhōngyàyèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) Vaurie's nightjar (Caprimulgus centralasicus) |
| 俾夜作昼 | 俾夜作晝 | bǐyèzuòzhòu | - lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil - work especially hard |
| 俾昼作夜 | 俾晝作夜 | bǐzhòuzuòyè | - to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour |
| 半夜三更 | 半夜三更 | bànyèsāngēng | - in the depth of night - late at night |
| 卜昼卜夜 | 卜晝卜夜 | bǔzhòubǔyè | - day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) |
| 埃及夜鹰 | 埃及夜鷹 | Āijíyèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius) |
| 夙夜匪懈 | 夙夜匪懈 | sùyèfěixiè | - to work from morning to night (idiom) |
| 夙兴夜寐 | 夙興夜寐 | sùxīngyèmèi | - to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard - to study diligently - to burn the candle at both ends |
| 夜不成眠 | 夜不成眠 | yèbùchéngmián | - to be unable to sleep at night |
| 夜不归宿 | 夜不歸宿 | yèbùguīsù | - to stay out all night (idiom) |
| 夜不闭户 | 夜不閉戶 | yèbùbìhù | - lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society |
| 夜以继日 | 夜以繼日 | yèyǐjìrì | - night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort |
| 夜幕低垂 | 夜幕低垂 | yèmùdīchuí | - darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc) |
| 夜幕降临 | 夜幕降臨 | yèmùjiànglín | - nightfall |
| 夜深人静 | 夜深人靜 | yèshēnrénjìng | - in the dead of night (idiom) |
| 夜色苍茫 | 夜色蒼茫 | yèsècāngmáng | - gathering dusk |
| 夜行昼伏 | 夜行晝伏 | yèxíngzhòufú | - to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom) |
| 夜郎自大 | 夜郎自大 | Yèlángzìdà | - lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom) - fig. foolish conceit |
| 夜阑人静 | 夜闌人靜 | yèlánrénjìng | - the still of the night (idiom) - late at night |
| 天方夜谭 | 天方夜譚 | TiānfāngYètán | - The Arabian Nights (classic story) |
| 天方夜谭 | 天方夜譚 | tiānfāngyètán | - fantasy story |
| 巴山夜雨 | 巴山夜雨 | Bāshānyèyǔ | - rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land - Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural revolution |
| 彻夜不眠 | 徹夜不眠 | chèyèbùmián | - to be sleepless all night |
| 挑灯夜战 | 挑燈夜戰 | tiǎodēngyèzhàn | - to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night - to burn the midnight oil |
| 日夜兼程 | 日夜兼程 | rìyèjiānchéng | - to travel day and night |
| 昼伏夜出 | 晝伏夜出 | zhòufúyèchū | - nocturnal - to hide by day and come out at night |
| 昼夜节律 | 晝夜節律 | zhòuyèjiélǜ | - circadian rhythm |
| 昼短夜长 | 晝短夜長 | zhòuduǎnyècháng | - the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom) |
| 普通夜鹰 | 普通夜鷹 | pǔtōngyèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) |
| 没日没夜 | 沒日沒夜 | méirìméiyè | - day and night - regardless of the time of day or night |
| 深更半夜 | 深更半夜 | shēngēngbànyè | - in the dead of night (idiom) |
| 漫漫长夜 | 漫漫長夜 | mànmànchángyè | - endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering |
| 熬更守夜 | 熬更守夜 | áogēngshǒuyè | - to stay up through the night (idiom) |
| 长夜漫漫 | 長夜漫漫 | chángyèmànmàn | - endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering |
| 长夜难明 | 長夜難明 | chángyènánmíng | - lit. many nights under a harsh moon - long years of oppression (idiom) |
| 长尾夜鹰 | 長尾夜鷹 | chángwěiyèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) large-tailed nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus) |
| 黑天半夜 | 黑天半夜 | hēitiānbànyè | - lit. the black sky of midnight - very late at night (idiom) |
| 一千零一夜 | 一千零一夜 | YīqiānLíngYīYè | - The Book of One Thousand and One Nights |
| 仲夏夜之梦 | 仲夏夜之夢 | Zhòngxiàyèzhīmèng | - Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4] |
| 夜招待酒会 | 夜招待酒會 | yèzhāodàijiǔhuì | - evening cocktail reception |
| 春江花月夜 | 春江花月夜 | Chūnjiānghuāyuèyè | - River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚[Zhang1 Ruo4 xu1] |
| 昼夜平分点 | 晝夜平分點 | zhòuyèpíngfēndiǎn | - the equinox |
| 毛腿耳夜鹰 | 毛腿耳夜鷹 | máotuǐěryèyīng | - (Chinese bird species) great eared nightjar (Eurostopodus macrotis) |
| 洞房花烛夜 | 洞房花燭夜 | dòngfánghuāzhúyè | - wedding night |
| 蓝须夜蜂虎 | 藍鬚夜蜂虎 | lánxūyèfēnghǔ | - (Chinese bird species) blue-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis athertoni) |
| 屋漏偏逢连夜雨 | 屋漏偏逢連夜雨 | wūlòupiānféngliányèyǔ | - when it rains, it pours (idiom) |
| 屋漏更遭连夜雨 | 屋漏更遭連夜雨 | wūlòugèngzāoliányèyǔ | - when it rains, it pours (idiom) |
| 破屋又遭连夜雨 | 破屋又遭連夜雨 | pòwūyòuzāoliányèyǔ | - see 屋漏偏逢連夜雨|屋漏偏逢连夜雨[wu1 lou4 pian1 feng2 lian2 ye4 yu3] |
| 马无夜草不肥，人无外快不富 | 馬無夜草不肥，人無外快不富 | mǎwúyècǎobùféi,rénwúwàikuàibùfù | - a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom) |
| 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊 | 平生不做虧心事，半夜敲門心不驚 | píngshēngbùzuòkuīxīnshì,bànyèqiāoménxīnbùjīng | - He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. - Rest with a clear conscience. |
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