夜 yè
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
夜以继日
yèyǐjìrì
day and night; around the clock
Characters in this word
继 jì
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
日 rì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 为了抢修被洪水冲毁的道路，工程队夜以继日地工作了三天。 Wèile qiǎngxiū bèi hóngshuǐ chōnghuǐ de dàolù, gōngchéngduì yèyǐjìrì de gōngzuò le sān tiān. To repair the road destroyed by the flood, the engineering team worked around the clock for three days.
- 科学家们夜以继日地研究，终于找到了解决问题的办法。 Kēxuéjiāmen yèyǐjìrì de yánjiū, zhōngyú zhǎodàole jiějué wèntí de bànfǎ. The scientists worked day and night on their research and finally found a way to solve the problem.
- 为了准备考试，他夜以继日地复习了一个月。 Wèile zhǔnbèi kǎoshì, tā yèyǐjìrì de fùxí le yī gè yuè. To prepare for the exam, he studied hard day and night for a month.
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
- 夜宵 yèxiāo late-night snack
- 昼夜 zhòuyè day and night; around the clock