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夜来香

yèláixiāng

tuberose (Agave amica)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

tuberose (Agave amica)

02

night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) (aka 夜香木 yèxiāngmù)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 夜来香 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 夜来香 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

文学作品中常用夜来香来象徵思念与柔情。wén xué zuò pǐn zhōng cháng yòng yè lái xiāng lái xiàng zhēng sī niàn yǔ róu qíng。

In literary works, night-blooming jasmine is often used to symbolize longing and tenderness.

乡间小路上，微风拂过，夜来香的香味让人想起童年的夜晚。xiāng jiān xiǎo lù shàng， wēi fēng fú guò， yè lái xiāng de xiāng wèi ràng rén xiǎng qǐ tóng nián de yè wǎn。

On the country path, a gentle breeze blows, and the scent of night-blooming jasmine reminds one of childhood nights.

她在花园里栽了几株夜来香。tā zài huā yuán lǐ zāi le jǐ zhū yè lái xiāng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 夜来香.

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

Directly before

  • 几株夜来香2
  • 常用夜来香1
  • 一株夜来香1
  • 几枝夜来香1

Directly after

  • 夜来香的3
  • 夜来香散发出1
  • 夜来香在1
  • 夜来香开得1
  • 夜来香来象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 夜来香

What does 夜来香 mean in Chinese?

夜来香 (yèláixiāng) means tuberose (Agave amica).

How do you pronounce 夜来香?

夜来香 is pronounced yèláixiāng.

Is 夜来香 an HSK word?

夜来香 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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