夜间
yè jiān
Pinyin

Definition

夜间
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yè jiān
  1. nighttime
  2. evening or night (e.g. classes)

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)
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
年夜
nián yè
  1. 1 lunar New Year's Eve

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
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)
长夜漫漫
cháng yè màn màn
  1. 1 endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering

Sample Sentences

好像有过这种说法。真不知道那些暴发户有些什么秘诀，能一夜间暴富，很多人并没有很高的学问，说难听点还很土气不上台面，可是有钱却是不争的事实。
hǎoxiàng yǒu guo zhèzhǒng shuōfa 。zhēn bù zhīdào nàxiē bàofāhù yǒuxiē shénme mìjué ，néng yīyèjiān bàofù ，hěn duō rén bìng méiyǒu hěn gāo de xuéwèn ，shuō nántīng diǎn hái hěn rustic bù shàng táimiàn ，kěshì yǒuqián què shì bùzhēng de shìshí 。
It seems like people have said that. I don't know what kind of secret tricks those newly rich have. They can get rich overnight. A lot of them aren't very well-educated. Not to put too fine a point on it, they're so vulgar that they wouldn't normally be able to make it. But it's an uncontested fact that they have money.
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新中国的第一个世界冠军就是乒乓。所以一夜间，全国人民都迷上了乒乓，它也成了国球。
xīnzhōngguó de dì yī ge shìjiè guànjūn jiùshì pīngpāng 。suǒyǐ yīyèjiān ，quánguó rénmín dōu míshàng le pīngpāng ，tā yě chéng le guóqiú 。
The first world champion that the PRC produced was in ping pong. So overnight, everyone became fascinated with ping pong. It has become the national game.
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想不通，气愤。为公司卖命这么多年，经济危机来了，一夜间把我们整个部门都撤了。
xiǎngbutōng ，qìfèn 。wèi gōngsī màimìng zhème duō nián ，jīngjì wēijī lái le ，yīyèjiān bǎ wǒmen zhěnggè bùmén dōu chè le 。
I couldn't get my head around it. I was really angry! I worked so hard for that company for so many years, and then the economic crisis came and our whole department disappeared.
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