Chinese symbol for “nightingale”
夜莺
yè yīng
Traditional: 夜鶯
nightingale
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nightingale is 夜莺 (yè yīng), defined as: nightingale.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 夜莺.
| 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 |
| 黄莺 (黃鶯) | huáng yīng | black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) |
| 柳莺 (柳鶯) | liǔ yīng | (ornithology) leaf warbler (bird of genus Phylloscopus) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “nightingale”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.