夜半

Chinese edit

		night	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
simp. and trad. (夜半)		夜	半
anagram		半夜

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yèbàn

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁶ bun³
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶ya-poe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yèbàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yèbàn
  - Wade–Giles: yeh⁴-pan⁴
  - Yale: yè-bàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yehbann
  - Palladius: ебань (jebanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: je⁶ bun³
  - Yale: yeh bun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: je⁶ bun³
  - Guangdong Romanization: yé⁶ bun³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²² puːn³³/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁶ya-poe
  - MiniDict: ya^去 poe
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhia-poe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦia²² pø⁴⁴/

Noun edit

夜半

(literary) midnight

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 半夜 (“midnight; late night”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		半夜, 夜半, 午夜, 深夜, 子夜
Mandarin	Beijing	半夜
	Taiwan	半夜
	Harbin	半夜
	Yantai (Muping)	半夜, 半拉夜
	Wanrong	半夜
	Xi'an	半夜
	Yinchuan	半夜
	Lanzhou	半夜裡, 半夜會
	Ürümqi	半夜
	Wuhan	半夜, 半夜裡
	Chengdu	半夜
	Guiyang	半夜
	Guilin	半夜
	Liuzhou	半夜
	Xuzhou	半夜
	Yangzhou	夜頭, 夜裡頭, 夜心頭
	Nanjing	半夜, 半夜裡頭
	Malaysia	半夜
	Singapore	半夜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	半夜
	Hong Kong	半夜
	Macau	半夜
	Taishan	半夜
	Dongguan	半夜
	Yangjiang	半夜
	Nanning	半晚
	Wuzhou	半夜
	Yulin	半夜
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	半夜
	Danzhou	老夜
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	半夜
	Singapore (Guangfu)	半夜
Gan	Nanchang	半夜
	Lichuan	半夜
	Pingxiang	半夜
Hakka	Meixian	半夜, 半夜隔
	Yudu	半夜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	半夜, 半夜仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	半夜, 半夜仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	半夜, 半夜仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	半夜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	半夜, 半夜仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	半夜
Huizhou	Jixi	半夜
Jin	Taiyuan	半夜
Jin	Xinzhou	半夜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	半暝
	Jianyang	半暝
	Pucheng (Shibei)	半暝
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	半暝, 半暝囝
	Changle	半暝囝
	Fuqing	半暝
	Yongtai	半暝
	Gutian	半暝
	Fu'an	半暝
	Ningde	半暝
	Zhouning	半暝
	Fuding	半暝
Southern Min	Xiamen	半暝
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	半暝
	Quanzhou	半暝
	Jinjiang	半暝
	Yongchun	半暝
	Zhangzhou	半暝
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	半暝
	Zhao'an	半暝
	Kaohsiung	半暝
	Yilan	暝尾仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	半暝仔
	Taichung	半暝
	Taichung (Wuqi)	半暝
	Tainan	半暝仔, 半暝
	Taitung	半暝
	Hsinchu	半暝
	Penghu (Magong)	半暝
	Penang (Hokkien)	半暝
	Singapore (Hokkien)	半暝
	Manila (Hokkien)	半暝
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	半暝
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	半暝
	Chaozhou	半暝
	Shantou	半暝
	Haifeng	半暝
	Singapore (Teochew)	半暝
	Wenchang	半暝
	Haikou	午暝, 半暝
	Qionghai	半暝
	Singapore (Hainanese)	半暝
Puxian Min	Fuding (Aoyao)	半暝
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	半暝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	半夜
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	半夜
Wu	Shanghai	半夜, 半夜裡向, 半夜裡
	Danyang	半夜裡, 半夜頭
	Hangzhou	半夜裡
	Ningbo	半夜裡, 半夜過
	Jinhua	半夜
Xiang	Changsha	半夜間子

Derived terms edit

夜半三更 (yèbànsāngēng)