林夜鹰 (林夜鷹)
lín yè yīng
Pinyin

Definition

林夜鹰 (林夜鷹)
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lín yè yīng
  1. (bird species of China) savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 variant: 夜 yè
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
yè diàn
  1. 1 nightclub
yè wǎn
  1. 1 night
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
yè jiān
  1. 1 nighttime
  2. 2 evening or night (e.g. classes)

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
单丝不成线,独木不成林
dān sī bù chéng xiàn , dú mù bù chéng lín
  1. 1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)
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