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Meanings
Adverb
Noun
1. night; evening
Night falls, and everyone heads back to their own homes.
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (84 in total)
every evening; night after night
how many nights; some nights; several nights; a number of nights
evening
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
every night; nightly
dawn; daybreak
middle of the night; dead of night
moonlit night
all night
creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit
every evening; every night
grey nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus); nightjar (any bird of family Caprimulgidae); goatsucker; streetwalker; low class prostitute (Edo period); soba vendors who walk around at night
staying up late; sitting up late at night; keeping late hours
night-clothes; heavy kimono-like quilt
late at night; small hours of the morning
night market
all night; throughout the night
night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm)
nightlife; night amusements
running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act
short spring night
misty, moonlit night; (spring) night with a hazy moon
dawn breaks; day dawns
night wind; night breeze
street at night; making a night journey
all night; throughout the night
seeing in the dark; night vision
every evening; night after night
evening calm
evening deepens into night; the night wears on; night advances
dark night; moonless night
to see well in the dark; to have good night vision
to stay up all night; to spend the night without sleep
perpetual night
night stall; night shop; night fair
attending someone through the night (of a guard, nurse); sleeping with a man (at his bidding); overnight vigil before burial
evening dew; night dew
to stay up all night; to sit up all night; to do something all night
crying (of an infant) at night; baby colic
darkness of the night; black of night; dead of night
night watch; night sentry
night work
night cold; chill of night; cold night
night festival
night watch; night watchman
many nights; hundred nights
staying up all night; all-night vigil
walking around at night
long night (esp. of autumn)
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
snowy night
day and night; turning night into day
all night; the whole night
starry night
A Midsummer Night's Dream (comedy by William Shakespeare)
short summer night
long night
misty, moonlit night
dawn; daybreak
frosty night
night storm
night; middle of the night
night boat; ship sailing at night
night crow
eyes of the night; eyes asleep; at night
festival-eve vigil; eve of a festival vigil
all night
3 days and 3 nights
night work
evening moon; moonlit evening; moonlight evening
night fishing with nets
cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one
night work; burglary
night watch
night shopkeeper; night storekeeper; night-hawker
night battle
night trading
weather clearing at night
washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
moonlit evening
many nights; a thousand nights
dinner
Examples (200 in total)
It is a hectic night.
It's eight o'clock at night.
Thank you for the pleasant evening.