1 variant: 夜 yè

1 midnight

2 in the middle of the night

1 nightclub

1 night

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 nighttime

2 evening or night (e.g. classes)

1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil

2 work especially hard

1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour

1 lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering

2 secret illicit sex

1 eloquence that generates perfume (idiom); profound and significant text

1 lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom)

2 fig. to live well