夜 yè
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
夜宵
yèxiāo
late-night snack
Characters in this word
宵 xiāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 肖 to resemble, to look like
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 深夜加班后，他没有立刻回家，而是和同事去街角吃夜宵。 Shēnyè jiābān hòu, tā méiyǒu lìkè huí jiā, ér shì hé tóngshì qù jiējiǎo chī yèxiāo. After working overtime late at night, he did not go home immediately, but went to the street corner with colleagues for a late-night snack.
- 下班太晚，我只想回家吃一碗热夜宵。 Xiàbān tàiwǎn, wǒ zhǐ xiǎng huí jiā chī yī wǎn rè yèxiāo. I got off work too late; I just want to go home and have a hot late-night snack.
- 晚上饿了，我常和室友下楼买夜宵。 Wǎnshang è le, wǒ cháng hé shìyou xiàlóu mǎi yèxiāo. When I get hungry at night, I often go downstairs with my roommate to buy a late-night snack.
Related words
- 半夜 bànyè midnight; late at night
- 夜 yè night
- 夜里 yèli at night
- 夜间 yèjiān at night, night time
- 日夜 rìyè day and night
- 深夜 shēnyè late night
- 彻夜 chèyè all night; throughout the night
- 连夜 liányè overnight; through the night
- 夜班 yèbān night shift
- 夜校 yèxiào night school
- 夜以继日 yèyǐjìrì day and night; around the clock
- 昼夜 zhòuyè day and night; around the clock