Swimming at night is dangerous.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
夜里
during the night
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
during the night
02
at night
03
nighttime
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 夜里 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 夜里 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Cats see better at night.
I arrived at Osaka Station at night.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 夜里.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 夜里.
Directly before
- 在夜里3
- 我夜里1
- 寒夜里1
- 所以夜里1
- 了夜里1
Directly after
- 夜里去世2
- 夜里没有2
- 夜里看得1
- 夜里到达1
- 夜里游泳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 夜里
What does 夜里 mean in Chinese?
夜里 (yèli) means during the night.
How do you pronounce 夜里?
夜里 is pronounced yèli.
Is 夜里 an HSK word?
夜里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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