宵
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night
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 宵
- Common rank
- #2,585
- Unicode
- U+5BB5
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
nighttime · Heisig RSH #196
house + candle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 宵
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打通宵 | to spend the whole night | |
| 夜宵儿 | erhua variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] | |
| 良宵美景 | fine evening, beautiful scenery (idiom) | |
| 元宵节 | Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of … | |
| 通宵达旦 | overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long; day and night | |
| 待宵草 | evening primrose | |
| 宵小 | thief; bandit; scoundrel; villain | |
| 通宵 | all night; throughout the night | |
| 连宵 | the same night; that very night; successive nights | |
| 元宵 | Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month; see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4]; stic… | |
| 夜宵 | midnight snack | |
| 宵夜 | midnight snack; late-night snack | |
| 春宵 | (literary) spring night; (fig.) wedding night; (fig.) night of sexual bliss | |
| 宵征 | night journey; punitive expedition by night | |
| 宵禁 | night curfew | |
| 今宵 | (literary) tonight | |
| 宵衣旰食 | to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom); diligently attending to official ma… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 肖 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肖 sound part | to resemble, to look like; to be like | |
| 消 | news, rumors; to die out, to melt away, to vanish | |
| 销 | to fuse, to melt; to market, to sell | |
| 哨 | to whistle; to chirp | |
| 削 | to pare, to scrape, to trim | |
| 硝 | saltpeter; to tan leather | |
| 屑 | bits, crumbs, scraps; fragments; not worthwhile | |
| 鞘 | scabbard, sheath | |
| 梢 | the tip of a branch; rudder | |
| 悄 | quiet, silent, still; anxious | |
| 筲 | basket, bucket | |
| 蛸 | octopus; long-legged spider; mantis nest | |
| 峭 | steep, precipitous, rugged | |
| 逍 | to ramble, to stroll; to jaunt, to loiter | |
| 捎 | to carry, to take; to select | |
| 艄 | the stern of a ship | |
| 魈 | mischievious mountain spirit | |
| 诮 | to scold, to blame; to ridicule, to criticize | |
| 绡 | raw silk |