CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

今夜

jīnyè

tonight

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

tonight

this evening

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 今夜 actually appears in real sentences.

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今夜，星光燃亮天际。jīn yè， xīng guāng rán liàng tiān jì。

The heavens are bright with stars tonight.

如果外头还有人怀疑，美国是否真的是任何事都可能发生的地方，怀疑我们开国先贤的梦想今天是否依然存在，怀疑我们民主的力量；今夜，就是你们要的答案。rú guǒ wài tou hái yǒu rén huái yí， měi guó shì fǒu zhēn de shì rèn hé shì dōu kě néng fā shēng de dì fāng， huái yí wǒ men kāi guó xiān xián de mèng xiǎng jīn tiān shì fǒu yī rán cún zài， huái yí wǒ men mín zhǔ de lì liàng； jīn yè， jiù shì nǐ men yào de dá àn。

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

美国，我们已经走过了一条漫漫长路。我们已经历了很多。但是我们仍有很多事情要做。因此今夜，请让我们自问--如果我们的孩子能够活到下个世纪；如果我的女儿有幸活得和安一样长，她们将会看到怎样的改变？我们将会取得什么样的进步。měi guó， wǒ men yǐ jīng zǒu guò le yī tiáo màn màn cháng lù。 wǒ men yǐ jīng lì le hěn duō。 dàn shì wǒ men réng yǒu hěn duō shì qíng yào zuò。 yīn cǐ jīn yè， qǐng ràng wǒ men zì wèn -- rú guǒ wǒ men de hái zi néng gòu huó dào xià gè shì jì； rú guǒ wǒ de nǚ ér yǒu xìng huó dé hé ān yī yàng zhǎng， tā men jiāng huì kàn dào zěn yàng de gǎi biàn？ wǒ men jiāng huì qǔ dé shén me yàng de jìn bù。

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves, if our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 今夜.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 今夜.

Directly before

因此今夜1

Directly after

今夜夜色1
今夜无眠1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 今夜

What does 今夜 mean in Chinese?

今夜 (jīnyè) means tonight.

How do you pronounce 今夜?

今夜 is pronounced jīnyè.

Is 今夜 an HSK word?

今夜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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