半夜
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Chinese[edit]
half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half |
night | ||
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simp. and trad. (半夜) |
半 | 夜 | |
anagram | 夜半 |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
半夜
- half of the night
- 前半夜 ― qián bànyè ― first half of the night
- midnight; (in general) late at night; deep of the night; the middle of the night
- 忽然大雷大雨,加以冰雹,落到半夜方止,壞卻房屋無數。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
- From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14th century CE
- Hūrán dà léi dà yǔ, jiāyǐ bīngbáo, luò dào bànyè fāng zhǐ, huài què fángwū wúshù. [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
忽然大雷大雨,加以冰雹,落到半夜方止,坏却房屋无数。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
Synonyms[edit]
Dialectal synonyms of 半夜 (“midnight; late night”) [map]
Derived terms[edit]
- 下半夜 (xiàbànyè)
- 三更半夜
- 半夜三更 (bànyèsāngēng)
- 半夜敲門不吃驚/半夜敲门不吃惊
- 半夜敲門心不驚/半夜敲门心不惊
- 半夜裡叫城門/半夜里叫城门
- 平生莫做虧心事,半夜敲門不吃驚/平生莫做亏心事,半夜敲门不吃惊
- 後半夜/后半夜 (hòubànyè)
- 星光半夜
- 更深半夜
- 深更半夜 (shēngēngbànyè)
- 白天不做虧心事,半夜不怕鬼敲門/白天不做亏心事,半夜不怕鬼敲门
- 黑更半夜
- 黑更半夜夜半三更
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