夜

夜 (radical 36, 夕+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓大 (YONK), four-corner 0024₇, composition ⿱亠⿰亻⿴夂丶)

• 液

• 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

Historical forms of the character 夜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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.

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

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 hou² je⁶ 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

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. night, nighttime

• Go-on: や (ya, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: や (ya, Jōyō)
• Kun: よ (yo, 夜, Jōyō); よる (yoru, 夜, Jōyō)
• Nanori: やす (yasu)

⟨yo₁ru⟩ → */jʷoru/ → /joru/

From Old Japanese.

Derived from yo below, suffixed with an element ru of unclear meaning.[1] Compare 日 (hi, “day”) → 昼 (hiru, “daytime”), which seems to use this same ru element.[1]

Now the most common term for night in modern Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) よ​る [yóꜜrù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [jo̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

夜 (hiragana よる, rōmaji yoru)

1. night, evening

   東 (とう)京 (きょう)の夜 (よる)

   Tōkyō no yoru

   Tokyo nights

   不 (ふ)安 (あん)な夜 (よる)を過 (す)ごす

   fuan na yoru o sugosu

   to endure a night of anxiety

   (literally, “to pass an uneasy night”)

   夜 (よる)の星空 (ほしぞら)を見 (み)上 (あ)げる

   yoru no hoshizora o miageru

   to look up at the night's starry sky

   『夜 (よる)のヒットスタジオ』

   “Yoru no Hitto Sutajio”

   "Hit Studio of the Night" (prominent Japanese music show)

   Synonym: 夜間 (yakan)

   Antonym: 昼 (hiru)

• 夜 (よる)の衣 (ころも)を返 (かえ)す (yoru no koromo o kaesu)

夜 (hiragana よる, rōmaji Yoru)

1. a female given name

⟨yo₁⟩ → /jʷo/ → /jo/

From Old Japanese.

In modern development, this term has taken on a more literary sense.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) よ​ [yóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [jo̞]

夜 (hiragana よ, rōmaji yo)

1. (literary) night, evening

   『真夏 (まなつ)の夜 (よ)の夢 (ゆめ)』

   “Manatsu no Yo no Yume”

   A Midsummer Night's Dream

• 夕 (ゆう) (yū), 夕 (ゆう)べ (yūbe)

夜 (eumhun 밤 야 (bam ya))

1. night

• 심야 (深夜, simya, “midnight”)
• 야경 (夜景, yagyeong, “night view”)
• 야근 (夜勤, yageun, “night overtime”)
• 백야 (白夜, baegya, “midnight sun”)

夜 (kun'yomi いぃーる, romaji yīru)

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

夜 (hiragana いぃーる, romaji yīru)

1. night

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

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

夜 (hiragana ゆる, romaji yuru)

1. nights

   一 (ちゅ)夜 (ゆる) ― chuyuru ― one night

   二 (た)夜 (ゆる) ― tayuru ― two nights

夜 (hiragana ゆる, romaji yuru)

1. night

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

夜 (hiragana ゆー, romaji yū)

1. night

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

Derived from yo₁ below, suffixed with an element ru of unclear meaning.[1] Compare 日 (pi₁, “day”) → 昼 (pi₁ru, “daytime”), which seems to use this same ru element.

Used as a standalone noun but not in compounds.

夜 (yo₁ru) (kana よる)

1. night, evening
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 807), text here

     宇豆都仁波安布余志勿奈子奴婆多麻能用流能伊昧仁越都伎提美延許曽

     ututu ni pa apu yo₂si mo nasi nubatama no₂ yo₁ru no₂ ime₂ ni wo tugi₁te miye ko₂so₂

     There is no way to see you in reality. Please continue to appear in dreams of the night![2]

   Antonym: 昼 (pi₁ru)

• 夜昼 (yo₁rupi₁ru)

• Japanese: 夜 (yoru)

First attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).[1]

Used as both a standalone noun and in compounds.

夜 (yo₁) (kana よ)

1. night, evening
   • 711–712, Kojiki (poem 3)

     ...阿遠夜麻迩比賀迦久良婆奴婆多麻能用波伊傅那牟...

     ...awoyama ni pi₁ ga kakuraba nubatama no₂ yo₁ pa idenamu...

     As soon as the sun hides behind the verdant mountains, then jet-black night will come.[3]

• Japanese: 夜 (yo)

Attested in the Hizen-no-kuni Fudoki (c. 739 CE) and in the Man'yōshū (759 CE) as the Eastern Old Japanese variation of yo above.

夜 (yu) (kana ゆ)

1. (regional, Eastern Old Japanese) night, evening
   • c. 732-739, Hizen-no-kuni Fudoki (poem 1)

     志努波羅能意登比賣能古袁佐比登由母為禰弖牟志太夜伊幣爾久太佐牟

     sino₁para no₂ oto₂pi₁me₁ no₂ ko₁ wo sa-pi₁to₂yu mo inetemu sida ya ipe₁ ni kudasamu

     Once I've taken her, slept with her a single night―that little lady, the girl from the bamboo brakes―I'll send her down to her home.[4]

     [Note: Some later manuscripts erroneously replace the man'yōgana 袁 (wo) with 素 (⟨so₁⟩ → so).]

• 夕 (yupu)

夜 (dạ, dà)

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夜 (kun'yomi どぅる, romaji duru)

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

夜 (hiragana どぅる, romaji duru)

1. night