Kanji: 夜

    • Meaning : night,evening
    • ON reading :
    • KUN reading : よ,よる
    • Nanori :
    • Stroke count : 8
    • Frequency of use ranking : 487
    • Jouyou grade level : 2
    • JLPT : 3
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - おしちや - name-giving ceremony
  • - いっさくや - night before last
  • - いっちゅうや - whole day and night/24 hours
  • | け - いちやづけ - (vegetables) salted just overnight/last-minute cramming
  • - いちにちいちや - all day and night
  • - いちやだいじん - overnight millionaire
  • り - いちやずくり - built in a night/stopgap/hastily written
  • - いちやこじき - (a) person made homeless by fire
  • - かんや - cold night
  • | しく | く - よろしく - well/properly/suitably | best regards/please remember me/please treat me favorably (favourably)/please take care of
  • - やかんがいしゅつきんしれい - curfew
  • っぴて - よっぴて - all night/throughout the night
  • - つきよ - moonlit night
  • じて - やいんにじょうじて - under cover of night
  • - こうや - first division of the night (approx. 7 pm to 9 pm)
  • - こんや - this evening/tonight
  • - みっかみよ - 3 days and 3 nights
  • - しちや - celebration of a child's seventh day
  • - やかいそう | ヤカイソウ - moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
  • - しゅうや - all night
  • - しゅくや - from morning till night/day and night/always
  • - よるがお - moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
  • アメリカ - アメリカよたか | アメリカヨタカ - common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
  • - よざけ - nightcap/drink at night
  • - じゅうさんや - 13th day (of the moon)/the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month
  • - じゅうごや - night of the full moon/the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
  • - いざよい - sixteen-day-old moon
  • - しょや - first night/first watch of the night/bridal night
  • - じょや - New Year's Eve
  • い - よあけまえがいちばんくらい - it's always darkest before the dawn/the darkest hour is just before the dawn
  • - しんや - late at night
  • - しんやざんぎょう - late-night overtime
  • - まよなか - dead of night/midnight
  • - せいや - clear night
  • - せいや - starry night/starlight night
  • - せいや - quiet night
  • - せんや - many nights
  • - せんや - few nights ago
  • - ぜんや - last night/the previous night
  • - せんいちや - Thousand and One Nights
  • - ぜんやさい - the eve (of festival) (e.g. Christmas Eve)
  • ばかりじゃない - つきよのばんばかりじゃない - you better watch your step!/sleep with one eye open!
  • - さよなきどり | サヨナキドリ - nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
  • - よやみ - black of night/dead of night/midnight
  • | し - いちやぼし - fish salted and dried overnight
  • かず - ちゅうやをおかず - continuing day and night
  • - ちゅうやけんこう - around-the-clock/(working) day and night
  • も - ひるもよるも - day and night
  • - ちゅうや - day and night
  • | - こんごうやしゃ - Vajrayaksa
  • - つや - all-night vigil over a body/wake
  • - てつや - all night/all-night vigil/sleepless night
  • - やみよのてっぽう - aimless attempt/shot in the dark
  • - どうや - the same night/that night
  • - やみよのつぶて - aimless attempt/shot in the dark
  • - にちや - day and night/always
  • - ごや - division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods | the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)
  • - ぼや - fifth division of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 pm)
  • - やけののきぎすよるのつる - parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night)
  • - やこうれっしゃ - night train
  • - やかんこうこう - evening high school
  • - やちょく - night duty/night shift
  • - へいや - third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am)
  • - ていや - fourth division of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am)
  • - はんや - midnight
  • | | - しらかわよふね | しらかわよぶね - being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) | know-it-all manner
  • - びゃくや | はくや - white (arctic) night/short night/midnight sun
  • - よめとおめかさのうち - expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat
  • についで | いで - よをひについで - day and night/turning night into day
  • - ふやじょう - nightless gay quarters/nightless city
  • - じょやのかね - temple bell rung 108 times on New Year's Eve
  • い - つやみまい - sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake
  • ぶるまい | い - つやぶるまい - dinner and drinks served after a wake
  • - すいしょうのよる - Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)
  • けない - よもひもあけない - cannot live even a minute without someone or something/meaning the world to one
  • ずに - よのめもねずに - sitting up all night
  • - はんつや - wake/vigil (that does not last the full night)
  • - よるがた - nocturnal (person)
  • - よる | よ - evening/night
  • もすがら | - よもすがら - all night
  • - やう - night rain
  • - やかい - evening party
  • - やがく - evening course/night-school
  • - やかんきんむ - night work
  • - やき - night air/stillness of night/cool evening
  • - やぎょう - night work/night shift
  • - よぞら - night sky
  • - やこうどけい - luminous watch
  • - やしゃ - yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)
  • - よいち - night market
  • がり - よあがり - weather clearing at night
  • - やせん - night warfare
  • | | - よたか | ぶんぼちょう - grey nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus) | nightjar (any bird of family Caprimulgidae)/goatsucker | streetwalker | soba vendors who walk around at night/soba sold by these vendors
  • - よなが - long night
  • - やとう - night burglar
  • き - よばたらき - night work
  • い - よばい - night crawling/sneaking visit
  • き - よあるき - walking around at night
  • けの - よあけのみょうじょう - morning star
  • - やらい - overnight/since last night
  • - やろうじだい - throwing one's weight around in a small group without knowing one's real worth in a larger world outside
  • ごと | - よごと - every night/nightly
  • - やあん - dead of night/shades of night
  • - やえい - encamping at night
  • び - やかいむすび - evening hairdo
  • - やがっこう - night school
  • - やかんさつえい - night photography
  • - よぎしゃ - night train
  • - やきょく - nocturne
  • - やけい - night view
  • - やこうちゅう - phosphorescent animalcule
  • - よざくら - cherry trees at evening
  • - やしゅう - night attack/nocturnal assault
  • - やしょく - shades of night/night scene
  • - よふね - night boat
  • - よぎ - night-clothes/heavy kimono-like quilt
  • - やちょう - nocturnal bird
  • - やとうむし | よとうむし - cutworm/army worm
  • - よみち - street at night/making a night journey
  • - やはく - night mooring
  • - よぎり - night fog
  • - やもうしょう - night blindness
  • - よあらし - night storm
  • な - よなよな - every evening/night after night
  • - よがらす - night crow
  • ぎ - よかせぎ - night work/burglary
  • り - よまわり - night watch/night watchman
  • - やかんえいぎょう - open at night
  • - やかんぶ - night-school season
  • | - よみや - eve of a festival vigil
  • - やぐ - bedding/bedclothes
  • - やこう - nocturnal luminescence
  • め - よぜめ - night attack
  • - よしごと - night work
  • - よあきんど - night shopkeeper
  • い - よぶかい - (staying) up late at night
  • - やそうきょく - nocturne
  • - よるひる - day and night
  • り - よづり - night angling
  • げ - よにげ - night flight (without paying)/skipping out by night/moonlight flit
  • 尿 - やにょうしょう - bed-wetting/enuresis
  • - やぶん - evening/night/nighttime
  • け - よあけ - dawn/daybreak
  • び - よあそび - nightlife/night amusements
  • - よつゆ - evening dew/night dew
  • べ | | - ゆうべ | ゆう | さくや - evening | last night
  • なべ - よなべ - night work
  • - やいん - shades of evening/dead of night
  • - よとぎ - attending someone through the night (guard, nurse) | act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding) | keeping overnight vigil over body before burial
  • - やかいふく - evening dress
  • - やかん - at night/nighttime
  • - やかんちゅうがく - evening middle school
  • め - よづめ - night watch
  • - やきん - night shift
  • - やけい - night watchman
  • - やこうとりょう - luminous paint
  • - よざらし - leaving things exposed outside all night
  • い - よあきない - night trading
  • - やしょく - supper/night meal/late-night snack/"fourth meal"/midnight snack
  • - やぜん - last night
  • - よなか - midnight/dead of night
  • し - よどおし - all night/throughout the night
  • ち - ようち - night attack
  • - よなぎ - evening calm
  • - よかぜ - night wind
  • かし | し - よあかし - staying up all night/all-night vigil
  • にもるい - よめにもあかるい - bright even in the dark/clearly visible at night
  • ち - よだち - setting out at night
  • - れんじつれんや - every day and every night
  • - こうやさい - an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing
  • | - あんや | やみよ - dark night
  • - いちや | ひとや | ひとよ - one night/all night/overnight/one evening
  • - いつや | おつや - second division of the night (approx. 9 pm to 11 pm)
  • かす - よをあかす - to intentionally pass the night without sleeping until morning
  • - いちやづま | ひとよづま - temporary consort/prostitute
  • - いちやじゅう | ひとやじゅう - all-night through
  • - よさむ | よざむ - night cold/cold night
  • - やばん | よばん - night watch/night sentry
  • - ひゃっきやぎょう | ひゃっきやこう - many monsters, spirits, etc. forming a line and walking through the night | veritable pandemonium/large number of people plotting and doing evil/creepy characters roaming about presenting a most scandalous sight
  • - やはん | よわ - midnight/dead of night
  • | - いっさくさくや - two nights before last
  • - やこう | やぎょう - walking around at night/night train/night travel
  • - やわ | よばなし - night talks/evening tea parties
  • - やちゅう | よじゅう - all night/the whole night
  • - やみよのからす - something indistinct (lit: a crow in a pitch-black night)
  • - よぐそみねばり | ヨグソミネバリ - Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)
  • - やみよにからす - something indistinct (lit: a crow in a pitch-black night)
  • のしじま | - よるのしじま - stillness of night
  • | - よみせ - night shop/night fair
  • け | け - よふけ - late at night
  • | - よるよなか - midnight
  • き - よなき - crying or singing (of bird, etc.) at night
  • | - やかんよきんきんこ - night-deposit safe
  • かし | し - よふかし - staying up late/keeping late hours/sitting up late at night/nighthawk
  • | 々 - よよ - every evening/night after night
  • き - よなき - crying (of an infant) at night (due to colic)
  • | - よみのくに - hades/realm of the dead/the next world
  • - にょほうあんや - total (utter) darkness
  • - ちゅうやぎゃくてん - one's days and nights being reversed
  • - むみょうじょうや - the long night of spiritual darkness
  • - さよしぐれ - light shower on a night in late autumn and early winter
  • - ひごとよごと - every day and every night/day after day/daily
  • - たいや - eve of the anniversary of a person's death
  • - ぼや - night/evening
  • ける | があける - よがあける - dawn breaks/day dawns
  • - ほしづきよ | ほしづくよ - starry night
  • - ちょうや | じょうや - long night/all night
  • - よめとおめ - seen in the dark or at a distance/(a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance
  • - いちやだいじん - overnight millionaire
  • - ゆうづきよ | ゆうづくよ - moonlit evening
  • - みょうや - tomorrow night
  • く - よるおそく - late at night/at a late hour
  • - しゅうやえいぎょう - (a business) open all night
  • - ちゅうやおび - type of woman's obi, the black and white fabric suggesting the contrast of day and night
  • - しゅうやとう - a night light
  • - つくよみのみこと - Moon God/Tsukuyomi no Mikoto/brother of Amaterasu
  • - やかんちゃくりくくんれん - night landing practice (practise)/NLP
  • - よとうが - cabbage armyworm
  • - よたかそば - ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)
  • - よめ - in the dark
  • り - よごもり - the dead of night/praying all night in a shrine or temple
  • - さよきょく - a serenade
  • - さよ - evening
  • り - よまつり - night festival
  • - よなきそば - ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)
  • - しもよ - frosty night
  • - まいよ - every evening
  • - とうや - that night/tonight
  • - りょうや - moonlit night
  • - いくよ - number of nights
  • - れんや - every evening/night after night
  • - じょうやとう - a night-light
  • - つきよたけ - moonlight mushroom
  • - せいや - holy night/Christmas Eve
  • アラビア - アラビアよばなし - Arabian Nights/The Thousand and One Nights/The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
  • - はちじゅうはちや - eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
  • - おぼろづきよ - misty, moonlit night
  • - おぼろよ - misty, moonlit night
  • - やこうせい - nocturnal habit
  • - そくや - on the same night
  • - しゅうやうんてん - all-night service
  • - しんやほうそう - late-night (all-night) broadcasting
  • - ねったいや - sultry night/sweltering night/night in which temperature doesn't fall below 25 degrees C
  • - みじかよ - short summer night
  • - やみよにてっぽう - aimless attempt/shot in the dark
  • - よるのとばり - veil of darkness
  • も - いくよも - for several nights
  • でもえる - よるでもみえるめ - eyes capable of seeing in the dark
  • えた - さえたよる - crisp and cold night
  • - ももよ - a hundred nights
  • - しんやぞく - the night owls
  • かたず - ちゅうやをわかたず - by day and night/day and night