夜

夜 (Kangxi radical 36, 夕+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓大 (YONK), four-corner 0024₇, composition ⿱亠⿰亻⿴夂丶)

• 液, 鵺, 腋, 掖

• KangXi: page 246, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5763
• Dae Jaweon: page 490, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 285, character 1
• Unihan data for U+591C

Historical forms of the character 夜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laːɡs) : phonetic 亦 (OC *laːɡ) + semantic 夕 (“moon”). 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ) may also serve as another phonetic component.

The lower-right portion is a corruption/graphical variant of 夕; the remainder (亠 + 亻) is a reduced and distorted form of 亦, used phonetically.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ja-n (“night”) (STEDT); cognate with Mizo zân (“night”), Burmese ည (nya., “night”).

Schuessler (2007) believes 夜 (OC *laːɡs) and 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ) are distinct as Tibeto-Burman keeps the etyma *ja-n (“night”) and *s-r(j)ak (“day; day (24 horus); night”) strictly separate. However, Baxter and Sagart (2014) suggest that 夜 and 夕 have clear etymological connections and thus reconstructs similar finals in both words.

夜

1. night

   See also: 晚

2. occurring during the night
3. (Cantonese) late (in the night)

   我呢排晚晚都好夜先返屋企。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   ngo⁵ ni¹ paai⁴ maan⁵ maan⁵ dou¹ hou² je⁶ sin¹ faan¹ uk¹ kei². [Jyutping]

   Recently, I've been going home quite late in the night.

4. Classifier for the number of nights.

   三天兩夜／三天两夜  ―  sān tiān liǎng yè  ―  three days and two nights

See 夜/derived terms § Chinese.

• “夜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00843

夜

1. (Teochew) Alternative form of 暝.

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: や (ya, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: や (ya, Jōyō)
• Kun: よ (yo, 夜, Jōyō); よる (yoru, 夜, Jōyō)
• Nanori: やす (yasu)

⟨yo₁ru⟩ → */jʷoru/ → /joru/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yoru.

Derived from yo below, suffixed with an element ru of unclear meaning.[1] Compare 日 (hi, “day”) → 昼 (hiru, “daytime”), which seems to use this same ru element.[1]

Now the most common term for night in modern Japanese.

• (Tokyo) よ​る [yóꜜrù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [jo̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

夜(よる) • (yoru) 

1. the night, evening

   東(とう)京(きょう)の夜(よる)

   Tōkyō no yoru

   Tokyo nights

   夜(よる)の街(まち)を歩(ある)く

   yoru no machi o aruku

   to walk the streets at night

   (literally, “to walk the night streets”)

   不(ふ)安(あん)な夜(よる)を過(す)ごす

   fuan na yoru o sugosu

   to endure a night of anxiety

   (literally, “to pass an uneasy night”)

   夜(よる)の星(ほし)空(ぞら)を見(み)上(あ)げる

   yoru no hoshizora o miageru

   to look up at the night's starry sky

   Synonym: 夜間 (yakan)

   Antonym: 昼 (hiru)

夜(よる) • (Yoru) 

1. a female given name

⟨yo₁⟩ → /jʷo/ → /jo/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yo.

In modern development, this term has taken on a more literary sense.

• (Tokyo) よ​ [yóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [jo̞]

夜(よ) • (yo) 

1. (literary) night, evening

   『真(ま)夏(なつ)の夜(よ)の夢(ゆめ)』 ― “Manatsu no Yo no Yume” ― A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• 夕(ゆう) (yū), 夕(ゆう)べ (yūbe)

From Middle Chinese 夜 (MC jia^H).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ja̠(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [야(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 夜 (eumhun 밤 야 (bam ya))

1. Hanja form^? of 야 (“night”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

夜 (kun'yomi いぃーる, romaji yīru)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yoru, from Proto-Japonic *yoru.

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yoru).

夜 (hiragana いぃーる, romaji yīru)

1. the night

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• On: や (ya)
• Kun: ゆー (yū, 夜); ゆる (yuru, 夜)

• 夜 (や)久 (く)貝 (げー) (yakugē)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yoru, from Proto-Japonic *yoru.

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yoru, “night”).

• (Shuri-Naha) ゆる [yúrù] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [juɾu]

夜 (hiragana ゆる, rōmaji yuru)

1. the night

• 夜 (ゆる)昼 (ひる) (yuruhiru)
• 夜 (ゆる)夜中 (ゆなか) (yuru yunaka)

夜 (hiragana ゆる, rōmaji -yuru)

1. nights

   一(ちゅ)夜(ゆる) ― chuyuru ― one night

   二(た)夜(ゆる) ― tayuru ― two nights

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yo, from Proto-Japonic *yo.

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yo).

• (Shuri-Naha) ゆう [yúù] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [juː]

夜 (hiragana ゆー, rōmaji yū)

1. the night

• 夕 (ゆー) (yū)

• “ユル” in Haisai Okinawan Dialect.
• “ユル（ゆる）” in Okinawan Dialect Dictionary - Ajima.
• “ゆる” in Okinawan Dictionary - KozaWeb.
• 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”)‎, 1963

From Proto-Japonic *yoru.

Derived from yo₁ below, suffixed with an element ru of unclear meaning.[1] Compare 日 (pi₁, “day”) → 晝 (pi₁ru, “daytime”), which seems to use this same ru element.

Used as a standalone noun but not in compounds.

夜 (yo₁ru) (kana よる)

1. the night, evening
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 807), text here

     宇豆都仁波安布余志勿奈子奴婆多麻能用流能伊昧仁越都伎提美延許曾

     ututu ni pa apu yo₂si mo nasi nubatama no₂ yo₁ru no₂ ime₂ ni wo tugi₁te miye ko₂so₂

     There is no way to see you in reality. Please continue to appear in dreams of the night![2]

   Antonym: 晝 (pi₁ru)

• 夜晝 (yo₁rupi₁ru)

• Japanese: 夜 (yoru)

From Proto-Japonic *yo, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).[1]

Used as both a standalone noun and in compounds.

夜 (yo₁) (kana よ)

1. the night, evening
   • 711–712, Kojiki (poem 3)

     ...阿遠夜麻邇比賀迦久良婆奴婆多麻能用波伊傅那牟...

     ...awoyama ni pi₁ ga kakuraba nubatama no₂ yo₁ pa idenamu...

     As soon as the sun hides behind the verdant mountains, then jet-black night will come.[3]

• Japanese: 夜 (yo)

Attested in the Hizen-no-kuni Fudoki (c. 739 CE) and in the Man'yōshū (759 CE) as the Eastern Old Japanese variation of yo above.

夜 (yu) (kana ゆ)

1. (regional, Eastern Old Japanese) the night, evening
   • c. 732-739, Hizen-no-kuni Fudoki (poem 1)

     志努波羅能意登比賣能古袁佐比登由母爲禰弖牟志太夜伊幣爾久太佐牟

     sino₁para no₂ oto₂pi₁me₁ no₂ ko₁ wo sa-pi₁to₂yu mo inetemu sida ya ipe₁ ni kudasamu

     Once I've taken her, slept with her a single night―that little lady, the girl from the bamboo brakes―I'll send her down to her home.[4]

     [Note: Some later manuscripts erroneously replace the man'yōgana 袁 (wo) with 素 (⟨so₁⟩ → so).]

• 夕 (yupu)

夜: Hán Nôm readings: dạ, dà

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夜 (kun'yomi どぅる, romaji duru)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yoru, from Proto-Japonic *yoru.

Cognate with mainland Japanese 夜 (yoru).

夜 (hiragana どぅる, romaji duru)

1. the night