Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

487 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: night, evening

Kunyomi: よる

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ゆうべ

Meaning: evening, sunset

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

(こんや)   tonight

(しんや)   midnight

間(やかん)   nighttime

する(てつやする)   stay up all night

更かしする(よふかしする)   stay up late

中(よなか)   late at night

明け(よあけ)   dawn

空(よぞら)   night sky

(つきよ)   moonlit night

(よる)   night

Onyomi Examples

counter for nights

ヤカン night, nighttime

ドウヤ the same night, that night

ツヤ all-night vigil over a body, wake

Kunyomi Examples

よる evening, night, dinner

明け よあけ dawn, daybreak

まいよ every evening, every night

みじかよ short summer night

よる evening, night, dinner

ご飯 よるごはん dinner, evening meal

御寝 およる sleep, rest

水晶の すいしょうのよる Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)