夜班
yè bān
Pinyin

Definition

夜班
 - 
yè bān
  1. night shift

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上班
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
下班
xià bān
  1. 1 to finish work
  2. 2 to get off work
夜
yè
  1. 1 variant of 夜[yè]
半夜
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
夜店
yè diàn
  1. 1 nightclub
夜间
yè jiān
  1. 1 nighttime
  2. 2 evening or night (e.g. classes)
班
Bān
  1. 1 surname Ban
三更半夜
sān gēng bàn yè
  1. 1 in the depth of the night
  2. 2 very late at night
上班族
shàng bān zú
  1. 1 office workers (as social group)
今夜
jīn yè
  1. 1 tonight
  2. 2 this evening
值班
zhí bān
  1. 1 to work a shift
  2. 2 on duty
加班
jiā bān
  1. 1 to work overtime
午夜
wǔ yè
  1. 1 midnight
夜夜
yè yè
  1. 1 every night
夜宵
yè xiāo
  1. 1 midnight snack
夜幕
yè mù
  1. 1 curtain of night
  2. 2 gathering darkness
夜晚
yè wǎn
  1. 1 night
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
夜景
yè jǐng
  1. 1 nightscape
夜班
yè bān
  1. 1 night shift
夜空
yè kōng
  1. 1 night sky

Idioms (20)

俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
bǐ zhòu zuò yè
  1. 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
夙夜匪懈
sù yè fěi xiè
  1. 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)
夙兴夜寐
sù xīng yè mèi
  1. 1 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard
  2. 2 to study diligently
  3. 3 to burn the candle at both ends
夜不归宿
yè bù guī sù
  1. 1 to stay out all night (idiom)
夜不闭户
yè bù bì hù
  1. 1 lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society
夜以继日
yè yǐ jì rì
  1. 1 night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
夜深人静
yè shēn rén jìng
  1. 1 in the dead of night (idiom)
夜行昼伏
yè xíng zhòu fú
  1. 1 to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
夜郎自大
Yè láng zì dà
  1. 1 lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. foolish conceit
夜阑人静
yè lán rén jìng
  1. 1 the still of the night (idiom)
  2. 2 late at night
屋漏偏逢连夜雨
wū lòu piān féng lián yè yǔ
  1. 1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)
屋漏更遭连夜雨
wū lòu gèng zāo lián yè yǔ
  1. 1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)
巴山夜雨
Bā shān yè yǔ
  1. 1 rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land
  2. 2 Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
按部就班
àn bù jiù bān
  1. 1 to follow the prescribed order; to keep to the working routine (idiom)
挑灯夜战
tiǎo dēng yè zhàn
  1. 1 to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night
  2. 2 to burn the midnight oil
昼短夜长
zhòu duǎn yè cháng
  1. 1 the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
深更半夜
shēn gēng bàn yè
  1. 1 in the dead of night (idiom)
漫漫长夜
màn màn cháng yè
  1. 1 endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering
熬更守夜
áo gēng shǒu yè
  1. 1 to stay up through the night (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我今天值夜班，明天又是早班，累死了，拜托让我睡一下。
wǒ jīntiān zhíyèbān ，míngtiān yòu shì zǎobān ，lèi sǐ le ，bàituō ràng wǒ shuì yíxià 。
I'm on the night shift tonight and then the early shift tomorrow, I'm completely tired out too, please let me sleep for a while.
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