| 夜 | [ yè ] night |
| 夜不成眠 | [ yè bù chéng mián ] to be unable to sleep at night |
| 夜不歸宿 | [ yè bù guī sù ] to stay out all night (idiom) |
| 夜不閉戶 | [ yè bù bì hù ] lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society |
| 夜以繼日 | [ yè yǐ jì rì ] night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort |
| 夜來香 | [ yè laí xiāng ] tuberose, Cestrum nocturnum, see also 夜香木 |
| 夜光 | [ yè guāng ] luminous |
| 夜半 | [ yè bàn ] midnight |
| 夜叉 | [ yè chā ] yaksha (malevolent spirit) (loanword), (fig.) ferocious-looking person |
| 夜場 | [ yè chǎng ] evening show (at theater etc) |
| 夜壺 | [ yè hú ] chamber pot |
| 夜夜 | [ yè yè ] every night |
| 夜大 | [ yè dà ] evening college (abbr. for 夜大學|夜大学[ye4 da4 xue2]) |
| 夜大學 | [ yè dà xué ] evening college |
| 夜宵 | [ yè ] midnight snack |
| 夜宵兒 | [ yè ] erhua variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] |
| 夜市 | [ yè shì ] night market |
| 夜幕 | [ yè mù ] curtain of night, gathering darkness |
| 夜幕低垂 | [ yè mù dī chuí ] darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc) |
| 夜幕降臨 | [ yè mù jiàng lín ] nightfall |
| 夜店 | [ yè diàn ] nightclub |
| 夜招待酒會 | [ yè zhaō daì jiǔ huì ] evening cocktail reception |
| 夜晚 | [ yè wǎn ] night, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 夜景 | [ yè jǐng ] nightscape |
| 夜曲 | [ yè qǔ ] nocturne (music) |
| 夜校 | [ yè ] evening school, night school |
| 夜梟 | [ yè ] owl |
| 夜消 | [ yè ] variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] |
| 夜深人靜 | [ yè shēn rén jìng ] in the dead of night (idiom) |
| 夜班 | [ yè bān ] night shift |
| 夜生活 | [ yè shēng huó ] night life |
| 夜盆兒 | [ yè pén ] chamber pot |
| 夜盲症 | [ yè máng zhèng ] night blindness, nyctalopia |
| 夜神仙 | [ yè shén xiān ] night owl, late sleeper |
| 夜空 | [ yè kōng ] night sky |
| 夜總會 | [ yè zǒng huì ] nightclub, nightspot |
| 夜色 | [ yè sè ] night scene, the dim light of night |
| 夜色蒼茫 | [ yè sè cāng máng ] gathering dusk |
| 夜行 | [ yè xíng ] night walk, night departure, nocturnal |
| 夜行性 | [ yè xíng xìng ] nocturnal |
| 夜行晝伏 | [ yè xíng zhoù fú ] to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom) |
| 夜行軍 | [ yè xíng jūn ] a night march |
| 夜裡 | [ yè li ] during the night, at night, nighttime |
| 夜襲 | [ yè xí ] night attack |
| 夜視 | [ yè shì ] night vision |
| 夜視儀 | [ yè shì yí ] night vision device |
| 夜視鏡 | [ yè shì jìng ] night vision device |
| 夜貓子 | [ yè maō zi ] owl, (fig.) night owl |
| 夜遊 | [ yè yoú ] to go to some place at night, to take a night trip to (a place), to sleepwalk |
| 夜遊症 | [ yè yoú zhèng ] somnambulism, sleepwalking |
| 夜郎 | [ yè láng ] small barbarian kingdom in southern China during the Han dynasty |
| 夜郎自大 | [ yè láng zì dà ] lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom), fig. foolish conceit |
| 夜開花 | [ yè kaī huā ] bottle gourd (i.e. 瓠瓜[hu4 gua1]) |
| 夜間 | [ yè jiān ] nighttime, evening or night (e.g. classes) |
| 夜間部 | [ yè jiān bù ] (Tw) evening program (at a college), night school |
| 夜闌 | [ yè lán ] late at night, in the dead of night |
| 夜闌人靜 | [ yè lán rén jìng ] the still of the night (idiom), late at night |
| 夜闌珊 | [ yè lán shān ] late at night |
| 夜香木 | [ yè xiāng mù ] Cestrum nocturnum |
| 夜驚 | [ yè jīng ] night terror, sleep terror |
| 夜鳥 | [ yè ] nocturnal bird |
| 夜鶯 | [ yè yīng ] nightingale |
| 夜鷹 | [ yè yīng ] nightjar (nocturnal bird in the family Caprimulgidae) |
| 夜鷺 | [ yè lù ] (bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) |
| ⇒ 一千零一夜 | [ yī qiān líng yī yè ] The Book of One Thousand and One Nights |
| ⇒ 一夜之間 | [ yī yè zhī jiān ] (lit. and fig.) overnight |
| ⇒ 一夜情 | [ yī yè qíng ] one night stand |
| ⇒ 一夜爆紅 | [ yī yè baò hóng ] to become popular overnight |
| ⇒ 一夜露水 | [ yī yè lù shui ] one-night stand, ephemeral |
| ⇒ 三更半夜 | [ sān gēng bàn yè ] in the depth of the night, very late at night |
| ⇒ 上半夜 | [ shàng bàn yè ] first half of the night, time before midnight |
| ⇒ 上夜 | [ shàng yè ] to be on night duty |
| ⇒ 不分晝夜 | [ bù fēn zhoù yè ] day and night, round-the-clock |
| ⇒ 中亞夜鷹 | [ zhōng yà yè yīng ] (bird species of China) Vaurie's nightjar (Caprimulgus centralasicus) |
| ⇒ 今夜 | [ jīn yè ] tonight, this evening |
| ⇒ 仲夏夜之夢 | [ zhòng xià yè zhī mèng ] Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4] |
| ⇒ 侵夜 | [ qīn yè ] (literary) nightfall, night |
| ⇒ 俾夜作晝 | [ bǐ yè zuò zhoù ] lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil, work especially hard |
| ⇒ 俾晝作夜 | [ bǐ zhoù zuò yè ] to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour |
| ⇒ 值夜 | [ zhí yè ] on night duty |
| ⇒ 元夜 | [ yuán yè ] Lantern Festival, night of 15th of first lunar month, see also 元宵[yuan2 xiao1] |
| ⇒ 入夜 | [ rù yè ] nightfall |
| ⇒ 初夜 | [ chū yè ] early evening, wedding night, (fig.) first sexual encounter |
| ⇒ 前半夜 | [ qián bàn yè ] first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight) |
| ⇒ 前夜 | [ qián yè ] the eve, the night before |
| ⇒ 包夜 | [ baō yè ] to buy an all-night package, (esp.) to book a prostitute for the night |
| ⇒ 午夜 | [ wǔ yè ] midnight |
| ⇒ 半夜 | [ bàn yè ] midnight, in the middle of the night |
| ⇒ 半夜三更 | [ bàn yè sān gēng ] in the depth of night, late at night |
| ⇒ 卜晝卜夜 | [ bǔ zhoù bǔ yè ] day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) |
| ⇒ 埃及夜鷹 | [ aī jí yè yīng ] (bird species of China) Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius) |
| ⇒ 夙夜 | [ sù yè ] morning and night, always, at all times |
| ⇒ 夙夜匪懈 | [ sù yè feǐ xiè ] to work from morning to night (idiom) |
| ⇒ 夙興夜寐 | [ sù xīng yè meì ] to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard, to study diligently, to burn the candle at both ends |
| ⇒ 夜夜 | [ yè yè ] every night |
| ⇒ 大半夜 | [ dà bàn yè ] the middle of the night |
| ⇒ 天方夜譚 | [ tiān fāng yè tán ] The Arabian Nights (classic story) |
| ⇒ 天方夜譚 | [ tiān fāng yè tán ] fantasy story |
| ⇒ 子夜 | [ zǐ yè ] midnight |
| ⇒ 守夜 | [ shoǔ yè ] to be on all-night duty, to be on night watch, to keep a vigil |
| ⇒ 宵夜 | [ yè ] midnight snack, late-night snack |
| ⇒ 宿夜 | [ sù yè ] to stay overnight |
| ⇒ 小夜曲 | [ yè qǔ ] serenade |
| ⇒ 屋漏偏逢連夜雨 | [ wū loù piān féng lián yè yǔ ] when it rains, it pours (idiom) |
| ⇒ 屋漏更遭連夜雨 | [ wū loù gèng zaō lián yè yǔ ] when it rains, it pours (idiom) |
| ⇒ 巴山夜雨 | [ bā shān yè yǔ ] rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land, Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution |
| ⇒ 平安夜 | [ píng ān yè ] Silent Night (Christmas carol), Christmas Eve |
| ⇒ 平生不做虧心事，半夜敲門心不驚 | [ píng shēng bù zuò kuī xīn shì bàn yè mén xīn bù jīng ] He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night., Rest with a clear conscience. |
| ⇒ 年夜 | [ nián yè ] lunar New Year's Eve |
| ⇒ 年夜飯 | [ nián yè fàn ] New Year's Eve family dinner |
| ⇒ 徹夜 | [ chè yè ] the whole night |
| ⇒ 徹夜不眠 | [ chè yè bù mián ] to be sleepless all night |
| ⇒ 成夜 | [ chéng yè ] all night long |
| ⇒ 挑燈夜戰 | [ dēng yè zhàn ] to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night, to burn the midnight oil |
| ⇒ 整夜 | [ zhěng yè ] the whole night, all through the night |
| ⇒ 日夜 | [ rì yè ] day and night, around the clock |
| ⇒ 日夜兼程 | [ rì yè jiān chéng ] to travel day and night |
| ⇒ 春江花月夜 | [ chūn jiāng huā yuè yè ] River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚[Zhang1 Ruo4 xu1] |
| ⇒ 昨夜 | [ zuó yè ] last night |
| ⇒ 晝伏夜出 | [ zhoù fú yè chū ] nocturnal, to hide by day and come out at night |
| ⇒ 晝夜 | [ zhoù yè ] day and night, period of 24 hours, continuously, without stop |
| ⇒ 晝夜平分點 | [ zhoù yè píng fēn diǎn ] the equinox |
| ⇒ 晝夜節律 | [ zhoù yè jié lǜ ] circadian rhythm |
| ⇒ 晝短夜長 | [ zhoù duǎn yè cháng ] the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom) |
| ⇒ 普通夜鷹 | [ pǔ tōng yè yīng ] (bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) |
| ⇒ 月夜 | [ yuè yè ] moonlit night |
| ⇒ 林夜鷹 | [ lín yè yīng ] (bird species of China) savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis) |
| ⇒ 查夜 | [ chá yè ] night patrol, to make nightly rounds |
| ⇒ 棕夜鷺 | [ zōng yè lù ] (bird species of China) rufous night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) |
| ⇒ 歐夜鷹 | [ oū yè yīng ] (bird species of China) European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) |
| ⇒ 母夜叉 | [ mǔ yè chā ] witch, shrew, vixen |
| ⇒ 每夜 | [ meǐ yè ] nightly |
| ⇒ 毛腿耳夜鷹 | [ maó tuǐ ěr yè yīng ] (bird species of China) great eared nightjar (Eurostopodus macrotis) |
| ⇒ 沒日沒夜 | [ meí rì meí yè ] day and night, regardless of the time of day or night |
| ⇒ 洞房花燭夜 | [ dòng fáng huā zhú yè ] wedding night |
| ⇒ 消夜 | [ yè ] nighttime snack, late-night supper |
| ⇒ 深夜 | [ shēn yè ] very late at night |
| ⇒ 深更半夜 | [ shēn gēng bàn yè ] in the dead of night (idiom) |
| ⇒ 漫漫長夜 | [ màn màn cháng yè ] endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering |
| ⇒ 熬夜 | [ aó yè ] to stay up late or all night |
| ⇒ 熬更守夜 | [ aó gēng shoǔ yè ] to stay up through the night (idiom) |
| ⇒ 犬夜叉 | [ quǎn yè chà ] Inuyasha, fictional character |
| ⇒ 當夜 | [ dāng yè ] on that night |
| ⇒ 當夜 | [ dàng yè ] that very night, the same night |
| ⇒ 白夜 | [ baí yè ] white night |
| ⇒ 破屋又遭連夜雨 | [ pò wū yoù zaō lián yè yǔ ] see 屋漏偏逢連夜雨|屋漏偏逢连夜雨[wu1 lou4 pian1 feng2 lian2 ye4 yu3] |
| ⇒ 禁夜 | [ jìn yè ] curfew |
| ⇒ 萬聖夜 | [ wàn shèng yè ] Halloween (abbr. for 萬聖節前夜|万圣节前夜[Wan4 sheng4 jie2 Qian2 ye4]) |
| ⇒ 萬聖節前夜 | [ wàn shèng jié qián yè ] Halloween |
| ⇒ 藍鬚夜蜂虎 | [ lán xū yè fēng hǔ ] (bird species of China) blue-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis athertoni) |
| ⇒ 通夜 | [ tōng yè ] all through the night, overnight |
| ⇒ 連夜 | [ lián yè ] that very night, through the night, for several nights in a row |
| ⇒ 過夜 | [ guò yè ] to spend the night, overnight |
| ⇒ 長夜 | [ cháng yè ] long dark night, fig. long period of misery and oppression |
| ⇒ 長夜漫漫 | [ cháng yè màn màn ] endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering |
| ⇒ 長夜難明 | [ cháng yè nán míng ] lit. many nights under a harsh moon, long years of oppression (idiom) |
| ⇒ 長尾夜鷹 | [ cháng weǐ yè yīng ] (bird species of China) large-tailed nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus) |
| ⇒ 開夜車 | [ kaī yè chē ] to burn the midnight oil, to work late into the night |
| ⇒ 隔夜 | [ gé yè ] overnight, of the previous day |
| ⇒ 馬無夜草不肥，人無外快不富 | [ mǎ wú yè caǒ bù feí rén wú waì bù fù ] a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom) |
| ⇒ 黑夜 | [ heī yè ] night |
| ⇒ 黑天半夜 | [ heī tiān bàn yè ] lit. the black sky of midnight, very late at night (idiom) |
