夜 yè
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
夜校
yèxiào
night school
Characters in this word
校 xiào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他白天在工厂上班，晚上到夜校进修财务管理。 Tā báitiān zài gōngchǎng shàngbān, wǎnshang dào yèxiào jìnxiū cáiwù guǎnlǐ. He works in a factory during the day and attends night school in the evening to study financial management.
- 很多上班族选择上夜校提高自己的学历。 Hěn duō shàngbānzú xuǎnzé shàng yèxiào tígāo zìjǐ de xuélì. Many office workers choose to attend night school to improve their qualifications.
- 我妈妈年轻时在夜校学过会计和英语。 Wǒ māma niánqīng shí zài yèxiào xuéguo kuàijì hé Yīngyǔ. When my mother was young, she studied accounting and English at a night school.
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
- 夜宵 yèxiāo late-night snack
- 夜以继日 yèyǐjìrì day and night; around the clock
- 昼夜 zhòuyè day and night; around the clock