半夜
bàn yèㄅㄢˋ ㄧㄝˋ
Sino-Vietnamese: BÁN DẠ
Traditional: 半夜
HSK 3.0 · 5TOCFL 2
Meaning(time word)
midnight; in the middle of the night
Examples
他常常工作到半夜。
tā cháng cháng gōng zuò dào bàn yè.
He often works until midnight.
半夜我被雷声吵醒了。
bàn yè wǒ bèi léi shēng chǎo xǐng le.
I was woken by thunder in the middle of the night.
别半夜给我打电话。
bié bàn yè gěi wǒ dǎ diàn huà.
Don't call me in the middle of the night.
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Stroke order
BÁN · 5 strokes
half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
DẠ · 8 strokes
variant of 夜