宵 — Chinese character
宵
xiāo
night, evening, darkness
- Pinyin
- xiāo
- Radical
- 40 ⼧ (Roof)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 宀 肖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — roof; meaning component 宀; sound component 肖
- Japanese
- 宵 as a kanji
Common words with 宵
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 通宵 | tōng xiāo | all night; throughout the night |
| 宵禁 | xiāo jìn | night curfew |
| 元宵 | yuán xiāo | Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month |
| 夜宵 | yè xiāo | midnight snack |
| 宵夜 | xiāo yè | midnight snack; late-night snack |
| 通宵达旦 (通宵達旦) | tōng xiāo dá dàn | overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long; day and night |
| 今宵 | jīn xiāo | (literary) tonight |
| 春宵 | chūn xiāo | (literary) spring night; (fig.) wedding night |
| 宵小 | xiāo xiǎo | thief; bandit |
| 宵衣旰食 | xiāo yī gàn shí | to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom); diligently attending to official matters |
| 夜宵儿 (夜宵兒) | yè xiāo r | erhua variant of 夜宵 (yè xiāo) |
| 宵征 | xiāo zhēng | night journey; punitive expedition by night |
宵 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.