元夜
yuán yè
Pinyin
Definition
元夜
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- Lantern Festival
- night of 15th of first lunar month
- see also 元宵[yuán xiāo]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一元复始
- 1 a new year begins (idiom)
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
- 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
元恶大憝
- 1 arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
夙夜匪懈
- 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)