熬夜
áo yè
Pinyin

Definition

熬夜
 - 
áo yè
  1. to stay up late or all night

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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)
年夜饭
nián yè fàn
  1. 1 New Year's Eve family dinner
三更半夜
sān gēng bàn yè
  1. 1 in the depth of the night
  2. 2 very late at night
今夜
jīn yè
  1. 1 tonight
  2. 2 this evening
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
夜色
yè sè
  1. 1 night scene
  2. 2 the dim light of night
夜里
yè li
  1. 1 during the night
  2. 2 at night
  3. 3 nighttime
夜猫子
yè māo zi
  1. 1 owl
  2. 2 (fig.) night owl
大半夜
dà bàn yè
  1. 1 the middle of the night
宵夜
xiāo yè
  1. 1 midnight snack
  2. 2 late-night snack

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
媳妇熬成婆
xí fù áo chéng pó
  1. 1 lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor
  3. 3 what goes around comes around
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
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

早早早！我昨晚熬夜追剧来着，没睡饱，早上一睁眼就觉得特累！对啊，你怎么那么精神抖擞的，感觉咱俩之间隔着时差啊！
zǎo zǎo zǎo ！wǒ zuówǎn áoyè zhuījù láizhe ，méi shuì bǎo ，zǎoshang yī zhēng yǎn jiù juéde tè lèi ！duìa ，nǐ zěnme nàme jīngshéndǒusǒu de ，gǎnjué zánliǎ zhījiān gé zhe shíchā ā ！
M-o-r-n-i-n-g, I was up all night catching up with that TV show. I've not slept enough. Once I opened my eyes this morning I felt exhausted. Hey, why are you so full of energy? It's as if there's time difference between us!
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睡眠？这一整年来，我几乎天天熬夜啊，恨不得一分钟掰成四分钟来用，睡眠对我来说简直太奢侈了。
shuìmián ？zhè yī zhěng nián lái ，wǒ jīhū tiāntiān áoyè ā ，hènbude yīfēnzhōng bāi chéng sì fēnzhōng lái yòng ，shuìmián duìwǒláishuō jiǎnzhí tài shēchǐ le 。
Sleep? I've been staying up late every night for almost this entire year. I'm always eager to make more use of my time, so you could say sleeping is like a luxury for me.
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那你得引起重视，晚上十一点到三点是养肝护胆的最佳时间，你如果长期熬夜，就会伤肝伤胆，轻则精神疲倦注意力无法集中，重则造成腑脏失调。
nà nǐ děi yǐnqǐ zhòngshì ，wǎnshàng shíyīdiǎn dào sān diǎn shì yǎng gān hù dǎn de zuìjiā shíjiān ，nǐ rúguǒ chángqī áoyè ，jiù huì shāng gān shāng dǎn ，qīng zé jīngshén píjuàn zhùyìlì wúfǎ jízhōng ，zhòng zé zàochéng fǔzàng shītiáo 。
You should take more care. From 11 at night to three in the morning is the time that the liver recuperates the best. If you stay up late every night, over the long term you'll damage your liver and your gall bladder. The milder consequences mean you'll be less able to keep your concentration if you're tired, while, more seriously, your organs will go out of balance.
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对，还有就是，一般到大年三十晚上都会熬夜嘛，看谁熬得最晚。
duì ，háiyǒu jiùshì ，yībān dào dànián sānshí wǎnshang dōu huì áoyè ma ，kàn shéi āo děi zuì wǎn 。
Right, also, on New Year's Eve we generally try to stay up all night, and see who can stay up latest.
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你干嘛那么晚睡？熬夜看球赛吗？
nǐ gànmá nàme wǎn shuì ？áoyè kàn qiúsài ma ？
Why on earth did you go to sleep so late? Were you staying up late to watch a ball game?
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可惜巴西和我们有11个小时的时差。恐怕这次又得熬夜了。
kěxī Bāxī hé wǒmen yǒu shíyī gè xiǎoshí de shíchā 。kǒngpà zhè cì yòu děi áoyè le 。
It's too bad the time difference between us and Brazil is 11 hours. I'm afraid that this time we'll have to stay up all night.
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看你的黑眼圈，昨晚肯定熬夜看球了。
kàn nǐde hēiyǎnquān ，zuówǎn kěndìng áoyè kàn qiú le 。
Looking at the black circles under your eyes, last night you must have stayed up all night watching the game.
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