HSK 5 · Time

夜 yè “night” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 夜 means

  1. night

How to say 夜

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale夜yè4th tone, falling

夜 in a sentence

  1. 夜里游泳很危险。

    Yèli yóuyǒng hěn wēixiǎn.

    Swimming at night is dangerous.

    Sentence #487582 from Tatoeba

  2. 你打算去哪儿过夜？

    Nǐ dǎsuàn qù nǎr guòyè?

    Where are you planning to spend the night?

    Sentence #2058571 from Tatoeba

  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 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 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 夜

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.

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

Words related to 夜

Words with 夜

熬夜áoyè · to stay up late昼夜zhòuyè · day and night

More words: Time & Sequence

时刻shíkè · time时期shíqī · period未来wèilái · future现代xiàndài · modern times一辈子yíbèizi · (for) a lifetime元旦Yuándàn · New Year’s Day至今zhìjīn · so far中旬zhōngxún · middle third of a month

FAQs

夜 (yè) means “night”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yè: yè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 夜 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 夜 from the suggestions. Typing ye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
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.