| 宵 | |||
| night, evening, dark | |||
| Radical | 宀 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 10 |
| Mandarin reading |
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Cantonese reading | siu1 |
| Japanese on reading | shou | Japanese kun reading | yoi |
| Korean reading | so | Vietnamese reading | |
| 宵 | [ ] night |
| 宵夜 | [ yè ] midnight snack, late-night snack |
| 宵小 | [ ] thief, bandit, scoundrel, villain |
| 宵征 | [ zhēng ] night journey, punitive expedition by night |
| 宵禁 | [ jìn ] night curfew |
| 宵衣旰食 | [ yī gàn shí ] to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom), diligently attending to official matters |
| ⇒ 元宵 | [ yuán ] Lantern Festival, night of the 15th of the first lunar month, see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4], sticky rice dumplings |
| ⇒ 元宵節 | [ yuán jié ] Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar |
| ⇒ 夜宵 | [ yè ] midnight snack |
| ⇒ 夜宵兒 | [ yè ] erhua variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] |
| ⇒ 待宵草 | [ daì caǒ ] evening primrose |
| ⇒ 打通宵 | [ dǎ tōng ] to spend the whole night |
| ⇒ 良宵美景 | [ liáng meǐ jǐng ] fine evening, beautiful scenery (idiom) |
| ⇒ 通宵 | [ tōng ] all night, throughout the night |
| ⇒ 通宵達旦 | [ tōng dá dàn ] overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long, day and night |
| ⇒ 連宵 | [ lián ] the same night, that very night, successive nights |