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夜 — night, evening

よる夜 night

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes time

U+591C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #487 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1037 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

night
evening

word

よる yoru Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

夜(よる) yoru night

や ya On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

今(こん) 夜(や) konya tonight 夜(や) 間(かん) yakan nighttime 一(いち) 夜(や) ichiya one night 前(ぜん) 夜(や) zenya the previous night 深(しん) 夜(や) shinya late at night 昨(さく) 夜(や) sakuya last night 夜(や) 景(けい) yakei night view 徹(てつ) 夜(や) tetsuya staying up all night

よ yo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

夜(よ) 中(なか) yonaka midnight 夜(よ) 明(あ) け yoake dawn 夜(よ) 空(ぞら) yozora night sky 真(ま) 夜(よ) 中(なか) mayonaka midnight

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亠 lid

亻 person (left form)

ゆう夕 evening #36

Used as component in (1)

えき液 fluid

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#36 夕 evening