よる
Meanings
Adverb
Noun
1. night; evening
Night falls, and everyone heads back to their own homes.
Noun
2. dinner
when read as "よる"
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (28 in total)
day and night
day and night
late at night; at a late hour
city at night; town at night; streets at night; nightlife district; drinking district
veil of darkness; curtain of night
dinner; evening meal
stillness of night
dark of the night; darkness of the night
nocturnal (person)
Queen of the Night (character in Mozart's Magic Flute)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (novel by Kenji Miyazawa); Milky Way Railroad
sexual intercourse; sex
hostess (at a bar, cabaret, etc.)
every night comes to an end; every night sees a dawn; this too shall pass; the darkest hour is just before the dawn
street prostitute; streetwalker; lady of the night
nighttime use; overnight
Silent Night (Japanese version of the song)
moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
dead of night; middle of the night
evening departure; night departure
Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neill)
Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938); Night of Broken Glass
night work (in the entertainment business or sex industry)
cool, late summer night
Night of the Long Knives (1934 SA purge in Germany); Röhm Purge
Nights of the Long Knives (1975 novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst)
sleep; rest
Examples (200 in total)
It is a hectic night.
It's eight o'clock at night.
Thank you for the pleasant evening.