星光半夜

Chinese edit

		starlight; Xingguang	half of the night; midnight; late at night half of the night; midnight; late at night; deep of the night; the middle of the night
simp. and trad. (星光半夜)		星光	半夜

Pronunciation edit

Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sên-kông-pan-ya

Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sên-kông-pan-ya
  - Hakka Romanization System: sen´ gong´ ban ia
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sen¹ gong¹ ban⁴ ya⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /sen²⁴⁻¹¹ koŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pan⁵⁵ i̯a⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sên-kông-pan-ya
  - Hakka Romanization System: sen´ gong´ ban (r)ia
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sen¹ gong¹ ban⁴ ya⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /sen²⁴⁻¹¹ koŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pan⁵⁵ (j)i̯a⁵⁵/

Idiom edit

星光半夜

(Hakka) in the middle of the night; late at night

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 半夜三更 (“middle of the night; late at night”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		半夜三更, 三更半夜, 深更半夜, 黑更半夜
Mandarin	Taiwan	三更半夜
	Harbin	黑更半夜
	Jinan	三更半夜, 半夜三更
	Luoyang	三更半夜, 半夜三更, 黑更半夜, 黑夜半地兒
	Wanrong	黑漆半夜
	Yinchuan	半夜三更, 三更半夜
	Lanzhou	半夜三更
	Xining	半夜三更
	Ürümqi	半夜三更, 深更半夜
	Wuhan	深更半夜
	Chengdu	半夜三更, 夜半三更
	Guiyang	深更半夜
	Xuzhou	黑天半夜
	Nanjing	深更半夜, 半夜三更
	Singapore	三更半夜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	半夜三更, 三更半夜
	Hong Kong	半夜三更, 三更半夜
	Taishan	三更半夜
	Dongguan	三更半夜, 半夜三更
Gan	Nanchang	半夜三更
	Lichuan	半夜三更
	Pingxiang	三更半夜
Hakka	Meixian	三更半夜
	Yudu	半夜三更, 三更半夜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	三更半夜
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	三光半夜
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	三光半夜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	三光半夜
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	三光半夜
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	三光半夜
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	三光半夜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	三更半夜, 星光半夜, 半夜三更
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	三光半夜, 半夜三更
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	三更半夜, 星光半夜, 半夜三更
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	三更半夜
Huizhou	Jixi	半夜三更, 半夜烏更
Jin	Taiyuan	半夜五更
Northern Min	Jian'ou	半暝三更
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	半暝三更
Southern Min	Xiamen	三更半暝
	Quanzhou	三更半暝
	Jinjiang	三更半暝
	Zhangzhou	三更半暝
	Zhao'an	三更半暝, 半暝三更
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	三更半暝
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	三更半暝
	Kaohsiung	三更半暝
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	三更半暝
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	三更半暝
	Yilan (Luodong)	三更半暝
	Yilan (Toucheng)	三更半暝
	Tainan	三更半暝
	Tainan (Anping)	三更半暝
	Penghu (Xiyu)	三更半暝
	Singapore (Hokkien)	三更半暝
	Shantou	三更半暝
	Jieyang	三更半暝, 半暝三更
	Haikou	三更半暝
Wu	Shanghai	三更半夜, 半夜三更
	Shanghai (Chongming)	半夜三更
	Suzhou	半夜三更, 成更半夜
	Ningbo	半夜三更, 淨更半夜
	Wenzhou	半夜三更, 三更半夜
	Jinhua	半夜三更
Xiang	Loudi	夜半三深, 半夜三深