| 夜 | 833C05 60.83 | 部居  | 畫數 8 | ㄧㄝˋ [ye4] | ||
| N. | Night: 日夜，晝夜 day and night; 一夜 one night, also whole night; 整夜，盡夜，終夜 whole night; 夜半，半夜 midnight; 巡夜，守夜 keep night patrol; 熬夜 work or keep awake all night; 坐夜 sit up all night; 長夜 long night; 月夜 moonlight night; 黑夜 dark night; 夜長夢多 (fig.) prospect is dark and dreary; 夜深人靜 in the dead of night; 夜闌 the night is far spent; 夜未央 it is not dawn yet. | |||||
| Adj. & adv. | Nocturnal, in the night, by night: 夜行 travel or roam about by night; 夜航 sail, fly in the night; 夜景 night view; 夜飯 supper, midnight supper; 夜場 evening show (of cinema, etc.); 夜襲 night attack; 夜班 night duty, night class. | |||||
| Words | 1. 夜半 [ye4ban4], adv., midnight. 2. 夜叉 [ye4cha0], n., (Sanskr. yaksha) demons that fly by night, (fig.) a very ugly person (also 母夜叉 a shrew). 3. 夜車 [ye4che1], n., night train. 4. 夜氣 [ye4qi4], phr., (AC) the spirit of well-being after a good night's rest. 5. 夜勤 [ye4qin2], n., night duty. 6. 夜度娘 [ye4du4niang2], n., (MC) prostitute; 夜度資 n., prostitute's fees for a night. 7. 夜分 [ye4fen1], adv., midnight. 8. 夜光錶 [ye4guang1biao3], n., luminescent watch. 9. 夜合 [ye4he2], n., (bot.) (1) mimosa; (2) Polygonum multiflorum (also called 何首烏). 10. 夜活 [ye4huo2], n., night work. 11. 夜壺 [ye4hu2], n., chamber pot. 12. 夜間 [ye4jian1], adv., during the night. 13. 夜禁 [ye4jin4], n., curfew. 14. 夜淨兒 [ye4jing0er0], n., chamber pot. 15. 夜中 [ye4zhong1], adv., in the night. 16. 夜課 [ye4ke4], n., evening class, homework. 17. 夜來 [ye4lai2], adv., during the night. 18. 夜來香 [ye4lai2xiang1], n., (bot.) tuberose. 19. 夜郎 [ye4lang2], n., (AC, LL) a small kingdom in southwest China: 夜郎自大 (allu.) [ye4lang2] people think their country is bigger than China--ignorant boastfulness. 20. 夜裡（頭） [ye4li0] ([tou0]) adv., in the night, at night. 21. 夜裡個 [ye4li1ge0] ([ye4er0ge0]) n., last night. 22. 夜漏 [ye4lou4], n., nighttime (漏 sand clock). 23. 夜盲症 [ye4mang2zheng4], n., night blindness. 24. 夜貓子 [ye4mao0zi0], n., night owl, nighthawk. 25. 夜明珠 [ye4ming2zhu1], n., luminescent pearl. 26. 夜尿症 [ye4niao4zheng4], n., enuresis, incontinence. 27. 夜盆兒 [ye4perer0], n., night basin. 28. 夜消兒 [ye4xiao1er0], n., night snack (also wr. 宵; usu. called 宵夜). 29. 夜戲 [ye4xi4], n., evening performance, evening show. 30. 夜行人 [ye4xing2ren2], n., night prowlers. 31. 夜市 [ye4shi4], n., night fair. 32. 夜學 [ye4xUe2], n., night school. 33. 夜臺 [ye4tai2], n., (LL) the grave, graveyard. 34. 夜啼 [ye4ti2], n., morbid crying at night of babies. 35. 夜總會 [ye4zong1hui4], n., night club. 36. 夜作 [ye4zuo0], n., night work. 37. 夜晚 [ye4wan3], n., evening. 38. 夜眼 [ye4yan3], n., some people's ability to see in the dark. 39. 夜夜 [ye4ye4], adv., every night, nightly. 40. 夜鷹 [ye4ying1]1, n., the nighthawk. 41. 夜鶯 [ye4ying1]2, n., the nightingale, bulbul. 42. 夜遊神 [ye4you2shen2], n., one who turns night into day (also 夜遊子). | |||||