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"when night falls" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
傍晚 bàng wǎn in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
星夜 xīng yè starlit night / by night / under the night sky / through the night syn
夜里 夜裡 yè li during the night / at night / nighttime syn
夜色 yè sè night scene / the dim light of night syn
通宵 tōng xiāo all night / throughout the night syn
连夜 連夜 lián yè that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row syn
整夜 zhěng yè the whole night / all through the night syn
夜行 yè xíng night walk / night departure / nocturnal
当夜 當夜 dàng yè that very night / the same night syn
夜游 夜遊 yè yóu to go to some place at night / to take a night trip to (a place) / to sleepwalk
三更半夜 sān gēng bàn yè in the depth of the night / very late at night syn
半夜三更 bàn yè sān gēng in the depth of night / late at night syn
守夜 shǒu yè to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil syn
通宵达旦 通宵達旦 tōng xiāo dá dàn overnight until daybreak (idiom) / all night long / day and night syn
夜阑人静 夜闌人靜 yè lán rén jìng the still of the night (idiom) / late at night syn
人定 rén dìng middle of the night / the dead of night
夜阑 夜闌 yè lán late at night / in the dead of night
宵征 xiāo zhēng night journey / punitive expedition by night
挑灯夜战 挑燈夜戰 tiǎo dēng yè zhàn to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom) / fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil syn
更鼓 gēng gǔ drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
没日没夜 沒日沒夜 méi rì méi yè day and night / regardless of the time of day or night syn
连宵 連宵 lián xiāo the same night / that very night / successive nights
夜视装置 yè shì zhuāng zhì night observation device / night vision device
夜视瞄准具 夜視瞄准具 yè shì miáo zhǔn jù night-viewing weapon sight / night-vision weapon sight
三更半夜 sān gēng - bàn yè (idiom) in the depth of the night / very late at night syn
大夜 dà yè the second half of the night / early morning (cf. 小夜[xiao3ye4], evening) / (fig.) eternal rest / death / (Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk
小年夜 xiǎo nián yè (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
一宿 yī xiǔ one whole night / all night
夤夜 yín yè (literary) late at night / in the dead of night
闭幕 閉幕 bì mù the curtain falls / lower the curtain / to come to an end (of a meeting) syn
冷宫 冷宮 lěng gōng (in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse / a state of disfavor
前仆后继 前仆後繼 qián pū hòu jì one falls, the next follows (idiom) / stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave syn
瓜熟蒂落 guā shú dì luò when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom) / problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time syn
百足之虫死而不僵 百足之蟲死而不僵 bǎi zú zhī chóng sǐ ér bù jiāng a centipede dies but never falls down / old institutions die hard
天崩地裂 tiān bēng dì liè heaven falls and earth rends (idiom) / rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval syn
兰艾同焚 蘭艾同焚 lán ài tóng fén lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom) / fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike
尼亚加拉瀑布 尼亞加拉瀑布 ní yà jiā lā pù bù Niagara Falls
洛皮塔 luò pí tǎ Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant
洛皮塔瀑布 luò pí tǎ pù bù Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant
维多利亚瀑布 維多利亞瀑布 wéi duō lì yà pù bù Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe
夜幕低垂 yè mù dī chuí darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc) syn
覆巢之下无完卵 覆巢之下無完卵 fù cháo zhī xià wú wán luǎn lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
见光死 見光死 jiàn guāng sǐ (lit.) to wither in the light of day / (fig.) the bubble bursts as the reality becomes apparent (esp. of a much-anticipated first meeting with sb) / (of stocks) just as the favorable news is officially published, the stock price falls
天上掉馅饼 天上掉餡餅 tiān shàng diào xiàn bǐng a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom) / to have something fall into your lap
维多利亚瀑布首脑会议 Victoria Falls Summit
黄果树大瀑布 黃果樹大瀑布 huáng guǒ shù dà pù bù Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安順|安顺[An1 shun4], Guizhou
尼加拉瀑布 ní jiā lā pù bù Niagara Falls (Tw)
肉烂在锅里 肉爛在鍋裡 ròu làn zài guō lǐ lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) / fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
双节 雙節 shuāng jié combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day (occurring when the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節|中秋节[Zhong1 qiu1 jie2] falls on October 1st, as in 1982, 2001 and 2020) / binodal / two-section
晚上 wǎn shang evening / night / CL:個|个[ge4] / in the evening syn
夜晚 yè wǎn night / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
昨晚 zuó wǎn yesterday evening / last night syn
深夜 shēn yè very late at night syn
黑夜 hēi yè night
夜间 夜間 yè jiān nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes) syn
半夜 bàn yè midnight / in the middle of the night syn
留住 liú zhù to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical) syn
昨夜 zuó yè last night syn
夜空 yè kōng night sky
关门 關門 guān mén to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently) syn
睡衣 shuì yī night clothes / pajamas syn
日夜 rì yè day and night / around the clock syn
更深 gēng shēn deep at night
深邃 shēn suì deep (valley or night) / abstruse / hidden in depth syn
晚间 晚間 wǎn jiān evening / night syn
昼夜 晝夜 zhòu yè day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop syn
夜幕 yè mù curtain of night / gathering darkness syn
过夜 過夜 guò yè to spend the night / overnight syn
晚安 wǎn ān Good night! / Good evening!
夜夜 yè yè every night
月夜 yuè yè moonlit night
熬夜 áo yè to stay up late or all night
粪便 糞便 fèn biàn excrement / feces / night soil syn
夜生活 yè shēng huó night life
元宵 yuán xiāo Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4] / sticky rice dumplings syn
彻夜 徹夜 chè yè the whole night syn
长夜 長夜 cháng yè long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression
歇息 xiē xi to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep syn
夜市 yè shì night market
三更 sān gēng third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1] syn
前夜 qián yè the eve / the night before syn
夜深人静 夜深人靜 yè shēn rén jìng in the dead of night (idiom) syn
初夜 chū yè early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
昙花一现 曇花一現 tán huā yī xiàn lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived syn
宵夜 xiāo yè midnight snack / late-night snack
夜班 yè bān night shift syn
天壤之别 天壤之別 tiān rǎng zhī bié lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference / a world of difference / a far cry (from) syn
朝夕 zhāo xī morning and night / all the time syn
中班 zhōng bān middle shift / swing shift / early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4-5 year olds)
露宿 lù sù to sleep outdoors / to spend the night in the open syn
迪厅 迪廳 dí tīng disco / night club / abbr. for 迪斯科廳|迪斯科厅
当夜 當夜 dāng yè on that night syn
采花 採花 cǎi huā to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women
夜视 夜視 yè shì night vision
昙花 曇花 tán huā Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) syn
五更 wǔ gēng fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
投宿 tóu sù to lodge / to stay (for the night) syn
黑天 hēi tiān night / nightfall
朝思暮想 zhāo sī mù xiǎng to yearn for sth day and night (idiom) syn
夜袭 夜襲 yè xí night attack
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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