Meanings
Counter
1. counter for nights
after numbers in the ichi, ni, san counting system
Kanji used
night
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (88 in total)
this evening; tonight
last night; yesterday evening
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
evening party
night; nighttime
night view; night skyline; nightscape
supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
night under the midnight sun; white night (at extreme latitudes); night during which the sun doesn't set
midnight; dead of night
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
evening; night; nighttime
walking around at night; night travel; night train
walking around at night; night travel; night train
night air; stillness of night; cool evening
every evening; every night
that night; tonight
day and night; around the clock; always; constantly
Christmas Eve; holy night
bedding; bedclothes
all-night vigil over a body; wake
night sky
shades of evening; dead of night
evening dew; night dew
dark night
night watch; night sentry
shades of night; night scene
night warfare
overnight; since last night
night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
sultry night; sweltering night; night in which temperature doesn't fall below 25 degrees C
the other night; a few nights ago
celebration of a child's seventh day
13th day (of the moon); the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month
nightless gay quarters; nightless city
tomorrow night
night before last
night school; evening school; evening class; night study
night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm); book of informal essays
New Year's Eve
23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month); moon-waiting party held on 23rd night of a lunar month
every evening; night after night
the same night; that night
ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)
night work; night shift
long night; all night
short summer night
last night
cold night
(arch.) division of the night (from approx. 7pm to 5am) into five 2-hour periods; the fifth of these periods (approx. 3am to 5am)
polar night
starry night; starlight night
period from midnight until the early morning; around 4am
Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)
quiet night
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
on the same night
throwing one's weight around without knowing one's limitations; (lit.) Yelang thinks too highly of itself
Twelfth Night; Epiphany Eve
moonlit night
bed-wetting; enuresis
owlet moth (members of the family Noctuidae); noctuid
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
night mooring
cool evening air; cooling oneself outside during the summer
from morning till night; day and night; always
midnight period; midnight service; (arch.) winter solstice
night duty; night shift
shabu-shabu-like hotpot dish with pork, spinach, etc.
during the night; at night
folk monster who wanders at night injuring and kidnapping people
the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)
fourth division of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
nocturnal seated Zen meditation (esp. around 8pm); sitting at night
night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night
many nights; a thousand nights
first division of the night (approx. 7pm to 9pm)
second division of the night (approx. 9pm to 11pm)
third division of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)
fifth division of the night (approx. 3am to 5am)