夜
夜 — ya
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 밤 야
- Romanization
- ya
- English
- night, dark; in night; by night
- Mandarin
- yè
- Japanese on'yomi
- ヤ, エキ, ヤク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- よ よる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #487 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 夕 (36, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+591C
How 夜 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 夜 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 亦, 夕.
Korean example words with 夜
- 금야今夜 Korean gloss: 오늘 밤
- 심야深夜 Korean gloss: 깊은 밤
- 야루夜漏 Korean gloss: 밤 시각
- 중야中夜 Korean gloss: 깊은 밤
- 경야竟夜 Korean gloss: 밤을 새움
- 야경夜景 Korean gloss: 밤의 경치
- 야공夜空 Korean gloss: 밤의 하늘
- 야심夜深 Korean gloss: 밤이 깊음
- 작야昨夜 Korean gloss: 어제의 밤
- 야묵夜默 Korean gloss: 밤의 고요함
- 추야秋夜 Korean gloss: 가을철의 밤
- 야로夜路 Korean gloss: 밤에 걷는 길
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 夜
- 夜よる night; evening; dinner
- 深夜しんや late at night
- 日夜にちや day and night; around the clock; always
- 夜間やかん night; nighttime
- 前夜ぜんや last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.)
- 同夜どうや the same night; that night
- 一夜いちや one night; all night; overnight
- 徹夜てつや staying up all night
- 夜中よなか middle of the night; dead of night
- 夜明けよあけ dawn; daybreak
- 昼夜ちゅうや day and night
- 夜空よぞら night sky
Characters sharing the phonetic 夜
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “액” in Korean.
Other hanja read “야”
Other hanja with radical 夕
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences