夜间 (夜間)
yè jiān
Pinyin

Definition

夜间 (夜間)
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yè jiān
  1. nighttime
  2. evening or night (e.g. classes)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

夜
yè
  1. 1 variant: 夜 yè
半夜
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
夜店
yè diàn
  1. 1 nightclub
夜间
yè jiān
  1. 1 nighttime
  2. 2 evening or night (e.g. classes)
三更半夜
sān gēng bàn yè
  1. 1 in the depth of the night
  2. 2 very late at night

Idioms (20)

俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
bǐ zhòu zuò yè
  1. 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
夙夜匪懈
sù yè fěi xiè
  1. 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)
夙兴夜寐
sù xīng yè mèi
  1. 1 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard
  2. 2 to study diligently
  3. 3 to burn the candle at both ends
夜不归宿
yè bù guī sù
  1. 1 to stay out all night (idiom)

Sample Sentences

好像有过这种说法。真不知道那些暴发户有些什么秘诀，能一夜间暴富，很多人并没有很高的学问，说难听点还很土气不上台面，可是有钱却是不争的事实。
hǎoxiàng yǒu guo zhèzhǒng shuōfa 。zhēn bù zhīdào nàxiē bàofāhù yǒuxiē shénme mìjué ，néng yīyèjiān bàofù ，hěn duō rén bìng méiyǒu hěn gāo de xuéwèn ，shuō nántīng diǎn hái hěn rustic bù shàng táimiàn ，kěshì yǒuqián què shì bùzhēng de shìshí 。
It seems like people have said that. I don't know what kind of secret tricks those newly rich have. They can get rich overnight. A lot of them aren't very well-educated. Not to put too fine a point on it, they're so vulgar that they wouldn't normally be able to make it. But it's an uncontested fact that they have money.
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新中国的第一个世界冠军就是乒乓。所以一夜间，全国人民都迷上了乒乓，它也成了国球。
xīnzhōngguó de dì yī ge shìjiè guànjūn jiùshì pīngpāng 。suǒyǐ yīyèjiān ，quánguó rénmín dōu míshàng le pīngpāng ，tā yě chéng le guóqiú 。
The first world champion that the PRC produced was in ping pong. So overnight, everyone became fascinated with ping pong. It has become the national game.
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想不通，气愤。为公司卖命这么多年，经济危机来了，一夜间把我们整个部门都撤了。
xiǎngbutōng ，qìfèn 。wèi gōngsī màimìng zhème duō nián ，jīngjì wēijī lái le ，yīyèjiān bǎ wǒmen zhěnggè bùmén dōu chè le 。
I couldn't get my head around it. I was really angry! I worked so hard for that company for so many years, and then the economic crisis came and our whole department disappeared.
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