"Night" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 晚上 |  wǎn shang | evening / night / CL:個|个[ge4] / in the evening |   |
| 夜 | yè | night | |
| 夜晚 | yè wǎn | night / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 黑夜 | hēi yè | night | |
| 晚间 | wǎn jiān | evening / night | |
| 黑天 | hēi tiān | night / nightfall | |
| 晚 | wǎn | evening / night / late | |
| 宿 | xiǔ | night / classifier for nights | |
| 晦 | huì | (bound form) last day of a lunar month / (bound form) dark / gloomy / (literary) night | |
| 宵 | xiāo | night | |
| 昨晚 | zuó wǎn | yesterday evening / last night | |
| 夜里 | yè li | during the night / at night / nighttime | |
| 深夜 | shēn yè | very late at night | |
| 夜间 | yè jiān | nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes) | |
| 半夜 | bàn yè | midnight / in the middle of the night | |
| 傍晚 | bàng wǎn | in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk | |
| 夜色 | yè sè | night scene / the dim light of night | |
| 留住 | liú zhù | to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical) | |
| 昨夜 | zuó yè | last night | |
| 夜空 | yè kōng | night sky | |
| 关门 | guān mén | to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently) | |
| 睡衣 | shuì yī | night clothes / pajamas | |
| 日夜 | rì yè | day and night / around the clock | |
| 更深 | gēng shēn | deep at night | |
| 通宵 | tōng xiāo | all night / throughout the night | |
| 昼夜 | zhòu yè | day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop | |
| 连夜 | lián yè | that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row | |
| 夜幕 | yè mù | curtain of night / gathering darkness | |
| 过夜 | guò yè | to spend the night / overnight | |
| 晚安 | wǎn ān | Good night! / Good evening! | |
| 夜夜 | yè yè | every night | |
| 月夜 | yuè yè | moonlit night | |
| 熬夜 | áo yè | to stay up late or all night | |
| 粪便 | fèn biàn | excrement / feces / night soil | |
| 夜生活 | yè shēng huó | night life | |
| 元宵 | yuán xiāo | Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4] / sticky rice dumplings | |
| 彻夜 | chè yè | the whole night | |
| 长夜 | cháng yè | long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression | |
| 歇息 | xiē xi | to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep | |
| 夜市 | yè shì | night market | |
| 三更 | sān gēng | third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1] | |
| 前夜 | qián yè | the eve / the night before | |
| 夜深人静 | yè shēn rén jìng | in the dead of night (idiom) | |
| 初夜 | chū yè | early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter | |
| 整夜 | zhěng yè | the whole night / all through the night | |
| 夜行 | yè xíng | night walk / night departure / nocturnal | |
| 夜班 | yè bān | night shift | |
| 星夜 | xīng yè | starlit night / by night / under the night sky / through the night | |
| 天壤之别 | tiān rǎng zhī bié | lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference / a world of difference / a far cry (from) | |
| 朝夕 | zhāo xī | morning and night / all the time | |
| 中班 | zhōng bān | middle shift / swing shift / early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4-5 year olds) | |
| 露宿 | lù sù | to sleep outdoors / to spend the night in the open | |
| 迪厅 | dí tīng | disco / night club / abbr. for 迪斯科廳|迪斯科厅 | |
| 当夜 | dàng yè | that very night / the same night | |
| 当夜 | dāng yè | on that night | |
| 夜游 | yè yóu | to go to some place at night / to take a night trip to (a place) / to sleepwalk | |
| 采花 | cǎi huā | to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women | |
| 夜视 | yè shì | night vision | |
| 昙花 | tán huā | Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) | |
| 五更 | wǔ gēng | fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) | |
| 三更半夜 | sān gēng bàn yè | in the depth of the night / very late at night | |
| 半夜三更 | bàn yè sān gēng | in the depth of night / late at night | |
| 朝思暮想 | zhāo sī mù xiǎng | to yearn for sth day and night (idiom) | |
| 夜袭 | yè xí | night attack | |
| 守夜 | shǒu yè | to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil | |
| 深更半夜 | shēn gēng bàn yè | in the dead of night (idiom) | |
| 夜猫子 | yè māo zi | owl / (fig.) night owl | |
| 白夜 | bái yè | white night | |
| 好睡 | hǎo shuì | good night | |
| 二更 | èr gēng | second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old) | |
| 安歇 | ān xiē | to go to bed / to retire for the night | |
| 夜校 | yè xiào | evening school / night school | |
| 夜以继日 | yè yǐ jì rì | night and day (idiom) / continuous strenuous effort | |
| 通宵达旦 | tōng xiāo dá dàn | overnight until daybreak (idiom) / all night long / day and night | |
| 盗汗 | dào hàn | night sweats | |
| 晨昏 | chén hūn | morning and twilight / day and night | |
| 四更 | sì gēng | fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old) | |
| 幽明 | yōu míng | the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts | |
| 夜视仪 | yè shì yí | night vision device | |
| 大粪 | dà fèn | human excrement / night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer) | |
| 更 | gēng | to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
| 宵禁 | xiāo jìn | night curfew | |
| 披星戴月 | pī xīng dài yuè | to travel or work through night and day / to toil away for long hours | |
| 守岁 | shǒu suì | to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve | |
| 打更 | dǎ gēng | to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times) | |
| 昼伏夜出 | zhòu fú yè chū | nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night | |
| 长明灯 | cháng míng dēng | altar lamp burning day and night | |
| 夜阑人静 | yè lán rén jìng | the still of the night (idiom) / late at night | |
| 更夫 | gēng fū | night watchman (in former times) | |
| 开夜车 | kāi yè chē | to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night | |
| 夜盲症 | yè máng zhèng | night blindness / nyctalopia | |
| 嫖宿 | piáo sù | to spend the night at a brothel | |
| 上半夜 | shàng bàn yè | first half of the night / time before midnight | |
| 前半夜 | qián bàn yè | first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight) | |
| 夜盲 | yè máng | night blindness | |
| 张若虚 | Zhāng Ruò xū | Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜 | |
| 夜阑珊 | yè lán shān | late at night | |
| 查夜 | chá yè | night patrol / to make nightly rounds | |
| 宿 | sù | lodge for the night / old / former | |
| 肝 | gān | liver (CL:葉|叶[ye4]) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress / grindy | |
