We called on him last night.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
昨夜
last night
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
last night
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 昨夜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 昨夜 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The thermometer fell to zero last night.
Last night I was dead drunk and fell asleep without having a bath.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 昨夜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 昨夜.
Directly before
- 汤姆昨夜1
Directly after
- 昨夜温度计1
- 昨夜我们1
- 昨夜做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 昨夜
What does 昨夜 mean in Chinese?
昨夜 (zuóyè) means last night.
How do you pronounce 昨夜?
昨夜 is pronounced zuóyè.
Is 昨夜 an HSK word?
昨夜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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