HSK 5 · Verbs

熬夜 áoyè “to stay up late” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 熬夜 means

  1. to stay up late
  2. to pull an all-nighter
  3. to stay up late or all night

How to say 熬夜

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale熬áo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale夜yè4th tone, falling

熬夜 in a sentence

  1. 熬夜对身体不好。

    Áoyè duì shēntǐ bù hǎo.

    Staying up late is bad for your health.

    Sentence #14004674 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你最好不要熬夜。

    Nǐ zuìhǎo bú yào áoyè.

    You’d better not stay up late.

    Sentence #908030 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他养成了熬夜的习惯。

    Tā yǎngchéng le áoyè de xíguàn.

    He’s got into the habit of staying up late.

    Sentence #1516177 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 熬夜 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 熬 (áo) with each of its parts in a different colour
熬áoto cook on a slow fire
  • 敖to ramble · ÁoSound part
  • 灬fire form of 火 · huǒMeaning part

灬 hints at the meaning (fire); 敖 (Áo) hints at the sound. Compare it with áo.

The character 夜 (yè) drawn as one shape
夜yènight

夜 is a single shape of 8 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 熬夜

熬 14 strokes · 夜 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

熬夜 (áoyè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 熬夜 (áoyè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 熬夜

Words with 熬

熬áo · to endure

Words with 夜

夜yè · night昼夜zhòuyè · day and night

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FAQs

熬夜 (áoyè) means “to stay up late” or “to pull an all-nighter”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it áoyè: áo with a 2nd tone, then yè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 熬夜 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type aoye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 熬夜 from the suggestions. Typing aoye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
熬夜 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.