半夜
bàn yè 4–4
midnight; in the middle of the night
- Characters
- 2
- 半 · 夜
- Syllables
- 2
- bàn yè
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 4,212
Part of speech: t
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 半夜. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 半bànHSK 1
half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- 夜yèHSK 2
night
- 一半yī bànHSK 1
half
- 半场bàn chǎngHSK 7
half of a game or contest; half-court
- 夜晚yè wǎnHSK 7
night
- 夜间yè jiānHSK 5
nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes)
- 夜里yè liHSK 2
during the night; at night; nighttime
- 深夜shēn yèHSK 7
very late at night
- 半天bàn tiānHSK 1
half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair
- 黑夜hēi yèHSK 6
night
- 熬夜áo yèHSK 7
to stay up late or all night
- 多半duō bànHSK 6
most; mostly; most likely
- 半决赛bàn jué sàiHSK 6
semifinals
- 半数bàn shùHSK 7
half the number; half
- 夜班yè bānHSK 7
night shift
- 夜总会yè zǒng huìHSK 7
nightclub; nightspot
- 日夜rì yèHSK 6
day and night; around the clock
- 半岛bàn dǎoHSK 7
peninsula
- 年夜饭nián yè fànHSK 7
New Year's Eve family dinner
- 半路bàn lùHSK 7
halfway; midway; on the way
- 连夜lián yèHSK 7
that very night; through the night; for several nights in a row
- 昼夜zhòu yèHSK 7
day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop
- 彻夜chè yèHSK 7
the whole night
- 过半guò bànHSK 7
over fifty percent; more than half