Tom got home at midnight.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
午夜
midnight
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
midnight
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 午夜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 午夜 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It's almost midnight here.
We got up after midnight.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 午夜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 午夜.
Directly before
- 在午夜2
- 是午夜1
- 今晚午夜1
- 汤姆午夜1
Directly after
- 午夜蓝1
- 午夜之后1
- 午夜了1
- 午夜生效1
- 午夜前到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 午夜
What does 午夜 mean in Chinese?
午夜 (wǔyè) means midnight.
How do you pronounce 午夜?
午夜 is pronounced wǔyè.
Is 午夜 an HSK word?
午夜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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