夜 — Chinese character
夜
yè
night, dark; under cover of night
- Pinyin
- yè
- Radical
- 36 ⼣ (Evening)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 亠 亻 夕
- Formation
- ideographic — A person 亻 sneaking by under cover 亠 of night 夕
- Japanese
- 夜 as a kanji
Common words with 夜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夜晚 | yè wǎn | night; 个 (gè) |
| 深夜 | shēn yè | very late at night |
| 夜间 (夜間) | yè jiān | nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes) |
| 午夜 | wǔ yè | midnight |
| 半夜 | bàn yè | midnight; in the middle of the night |
| 夜里 (夜裡) | yè li | during the night; at night |
| 日夜 | rì yè | day and night; around the clock |
| 夜夜 | yè yè | every night |
| 黑夜 | hēi yè | night |
| 今夜 | jīn yè | tonight; this evening |
| 连夜 (連夜) | lián yè | that very night; through the night |
| 过夜 (過夜) | guò yè | to spend the night; overnight |
English words written with 夜
夜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Art of War 4 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 27 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 9.16
- Analects 15.30
- Analects 18.11
- Art of War 7.7
- Art of War 7.26
- Art of War 9.32
- Art of War 12.11
- Hexagram 43
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.