NIGHT    夜裡夜

PART of DAY when it is COMPLETELY DARK AND when one SLEEPS.
NIGHTTIMEHOURS OF DARKNESSDARKNESSDARKNIGHTFALLSUNSET
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Yè 夜 (ant. zhòu 晝 "daytime", and rì 日 "day (when it is bright)") is the general term referring to the part of the day when it is dark, i.e. the evening and the night. 2. Xiāo 宵 (ant. zhòu 晝 ) refers to the night only, without including the evening, and the reference is not to the length of time so much as to the absence of sunlight. 3. Yè fēn 夜分 (ant. rì zhōng 日中 "midday") refers to midnight. 4. Sù 宿 refers to a night as what is spent in a hostel, or as the time one uses for sleep. 5. Míng 冥 is occasionally used to refer, by synecdoche, to the night as the time when it is dark.
Modern Chinese Criteria
夜 夜裡 夜間 黑夜之中 深更半夜 深宵 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Part of
  • EVENINGPERIOD of DAY BEFORE one SLEEPS AND LATER:after one STOPS WORKING.
  • MIDNIGHTMIDDLE of the NIGHT.
Antonym
Hypernym
  • PERIOD　TIME CONSISTING of a LIMITED SEQUENCE of MOMENTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 20)
  • TIME　ABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN. (anc: 3/0, child: 11)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
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  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

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  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 30

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 3.1031

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 176

  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 652

    • Words (11 items)

    夜  yè OC: k-laɡs MC: jɣɛ 62 Attributions

    Yè 夜 (ant. zhòu 晝 "daytime", and rì 日"day (when it is bright)") is the general term referring to the part of the day when it is dark, i.e. the evening and the night.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 夙/MORNING Sù 夙 (ant. yè 夜 "night") refers specifically to the early morning and is almost still a part of the night, yè 夜, since it is a time where the moon is still out. The word never refers specifically to the morning of a given day.
    • Assoc: 日/DAYTIME
    • Oppos: 日/DAY The general term for the day as the time of human activity is 日(ant. 夜"nighttime, when there is no activity", and perhaps sometimes xì 夕"the time of day when the sun is declining and including the time when the sun has gone down but one has not yet gone to bed"). It was unclear in ancient times exactly when during the night one day ends and the next begins.
    • Oppos: 晝/DAY Zhòu 晝 (ant. xiāo 宵 "nighttime" and yè 夜 "night") refers to that part of the day when there is daylight.

      Syntactic words
    • nthe period of the day while the sun is down, night
    • n.red:adVevery night
    • nadNnighttime
    • nadSat night
    • nadVtimelate in the evening, late at night; by night
    • nfigurative"night"
    • npost-Vnight characterised by the feature VDS
    • npostadVduring the night, at nighttime
    宵  xiāo OC: smew MC: siɛu 16 Attributions

    Xiāo 宵 (ant. zhòu 晝) refers to the night only, without including the evening, and the reference is not to the length of time so much as to the absence of sunlight.

      Syntactic words
    • nnight
    • n(post-N.)adVduring THAT night
    • nadNnight-related: of the night
    • nadStimeat night; during the night
    • nadVat night
    宿  sù OC: suɡ MC: suk 5 Attributions

    Sù 宿 refers to a night as what is spent in a hostel, or as the time one uses for sleep.

      Syntactic words
    • na night
    • nadVtimefor one night
    終夜  zhōng yè OC: tjuŋ k-laɡs MC: tɕuŋ jɣɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadVall night
    中夜  zhōng yè OC: krluŋ k-laɡs MC: ʈuŋ jɣɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabtimemidnight
    • NPadVin the middle of the night
    冥  míng OC: meeŋ MC: meŋ 2 Attributions

    Míng 冥 is occasionally used to refer, by synecdoche, to the night as the time when it is dark.

      Syntactic words
    • nrare: darkness, night
    • nadVtimeinto the night, during darkness
    是夜  shì yè OC: ɡljeʔ k-laɡs MC: dʑiɛ jɣɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPadSduring that night
    夕  xī OC: sɢlaɡ MC: ziɛk 1 Attribution

    tonight

      Syntactic words
    • nOBI: night? (possibly a graph for 夜)
    • nadSat night; tonight
    • npost-V{NUM}NUM nightsDS
    通昔  tōng xī MC: thuwng sjek OC: kh-looŋ sqaɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPadVall night throughCH
    昔者  xī zhě MC: sjek tsyaeX OC: sqaɡ kljaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPadSyesterday night; the other nightCH
    夜分  yè fēn OC: k-laɡs pɯn MC: jɣɛ pi̯un 0 Attributions

    Yè fēn 夜分(ant. rì zhōng 日中 "midday") refers to midnight.

      Syntactic words