長夜

Mandarin

Noun

長夜 (traditional, Pinyin chángyè, simplified 长夜)

1. (archaic) long night
2. (archaic) dead and buried (which is metaphorically like a long night)

References

• "長夜" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2009-05-31.
• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778: