graveyard shift; late night shift
evening shift; early night shift
1.(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve2.(Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian)3.(old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
1.Silent Night (Christmas carol)2.Christmas Eve
reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)
Inuyasha, fictional character
(lit. and fig.) overnight
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
1.day and night2.round-the-clock
1.lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil2.work especially hard
to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
1.to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard2.to study diligently3.to burn the candle at both ends
darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc)
1.rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land2.Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
1.to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night2.to burn the midnight oil
1.nocturnal2.to hide by day and come out at night
1.day and night2.regardless of the time of day or night
in the dead of night (idiom)
endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering
to stay up through the night (idiom)
endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering
1.lit. many nights under a harsh moon2.long years of oppression (idiom)
(idiom) in the middle of the night
One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 张若虚[zhāng ruò xū]
see 三更半夜[sān gēng bàn yè]
1.(literary) nightfall2.night
to stay up all night; to pull an all-nighter
to go for a nighttime run
1.night terror2.sleep terror
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
1.the second half of the night; early morning (cf. 小夜[xiǎo yè], evening)2.(fig.) eternal rest; death3.(Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk
the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜[dà yè], early morning)
erhua variant of 夜宵[yè xiāo]
bottle gourd (i.e. 瓠瓜[hù guā])
night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum)
(bird species of China) savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis)
(bird species of China) nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
(bird species of China) European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)