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Kanji Detail for 宵 - "evening, night"

宵

  • Meaning

    宵 means "evening, night." Also associated with dusk.

    1. Evening - The early part of night.

    2. Dusk - The time just after sunset.

    3. Night - The dark hours.

  • Words using 宵

    • 今宵 こよい Listen this evening; tonight

  • Four-character idioms with 宵

    • 春宵一刻 しゅんしょういっこく Listen a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold)

  • Tattoo check: 宵

    • Verified meaning: evening, night
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read よい)
    • Also carries these associations: dusk

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 宵

    Given names 宵(よい)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    wee hours; evening; early night

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    night, evening, dark

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    night

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    night, evening, darkness

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Night. 中宵 is midnight. | Small. Small people are also called 宵人.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shoh(ショウ) ショウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    yoi(よい) よい

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    宀 (ukammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    evening dusk night good small dark crepuscular eventide gloaming late lunar moon nocturnal stars sundown twilight

Sentences including 宵

  • The night is still young.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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