Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

夜 (radical 36 夕+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓大 (YONK), four-corner 0024₇)

Derived characters

• 液

References

• KangXi: page 246, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5763
• Dae Jaweon: page 490, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 285, character 1
• Unihan data for U+591C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夜
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laːɡs) : phonetic 亦 ‎(OC *laːɡ) + semantic 夕 ‎(“moon”).

The lower-right portion is a corruption/graphical variant of 夕; the remainder (亠 + 亻) is a reduced and distorted form of 亦, used phonetically.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)ak.

Pronunciation

Definitions

夜

1. night

   ⇒ 晚

2. occurring during the night
3. (Cantonese) late (in the night)

   我呢排晚晚都好夜先返屋企。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   Ngo⁵ ni¹ paai⁴ maan⁵ maan⁵ dou¹ hou²je⁶ sin¹ faan¹ uk¹ kei^5-2. [Jyutping]

   Recently, I've been going home quite late in the night.

4. Classifier for the number of nights.

   三天兩夜 / 三天两夜  ―  sān tiān liǎng yè  ―  three days and two nights

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. The night.

Readings

• Goon: や (ya)
• Kan’on: や (ya)
• Kun: よ (yo), よる (yoru)

Compounds

• 夜食 (やしょく) ‎(yashoku): night meal, midnight snack
• 十六夜 (いざよい) ‎(izayoi): the sixteenth night of every month

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) よ​る [yóꜜrù] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [jo̞ɾ̠ɯᵝ]

Noun

夜 ‎(hiragana よる, romaji yoru)

1. night; the evening

   夜 (よる)が明 (あ)けて、月 (つき)が沈 (しず)んで、今日 (きょう)も地球 (ちきゅう)が回 (まわ)る。

   Yoru ga akete, tsuki ga shizunde, kyō mo chikyū ga mawaru.

   Dawn breaks (lit. night ends), the moon sinks, and today as well the Earth revolves.

   『夜 (よる)のカフェテラス』

   “Yoru no Kafe Terasu”

   Cafe Terrace at Night

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) よ​る [yóꜜrù] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [jo̞ɾ̠ɯᵝ]

Noun

夜 ‎(hiragana よ, romaji yo)

1. (literary) night; the evening

   『真夏 (まなつ)の夜 (よ)の夢 (ゆめ)』

   “Manatsu no Yo no Yume”

   A Midsummer Night's Dream

References

1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

夜 • ‎(ya) (hangeul 야, McCune-Reischauer ya)

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Oki-No-Erabu

Kanji

夜 ‎(kun'yomi いぃーる, romaji yīru)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 ‎(yoru, “night”).

Noun

夜 ‎(hiragana いぃーる, romaji yīru)

1. night

Okinawan

Kanji

夜 ‎(kun'yomi ゆる, romaji yuru, kun'yomi ゆー, romaji yū)

Etymology 1

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 ‎(yoru, “night”).

Counter

夜 ‎(hiragana ゆる, romaji yuru)

1. nights

   一夜 (ちゅゆる)

   chuyuru

   one night

   二夜 (たゆる)

   tayuru

   two nights

Noun

夜 ‎(hiragana ゆる, romaji yuru)

1. night

Etymology 2

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 ‎(yo, “night”).

Noun

夜 ‎(hiragana ゆー, romaji yū)

1. night

References

• 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”), 1963

Vietnamese

Han character

夜 (dạ, dà)

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Yonaguni

Kanji

夜 ‎(kun'yomi どぅる, romaji duru)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 ‎(yoru, “night”).

Noun

夜 ‎(hiragana どぅる, romaji duru)

1. night