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夜中

JLPT N4 · N3 · Vocabulary

夜中 — “middle of the night, midnight”

夜中 (read よなか) means middle of the night, midnight. It appears on the JLPT N4 and N3 vocabulary list and is a noun.

Reading

よなか

Meaning

middle of the night, midnight

夜中 in a sentence

夜中よなかに目めが覚めさめました。

I woke up in the middle of the night.

The kanji in 夜中

夜night
中middle; inside

Words that share a kanji with 夜中

昨夜ゆうべ— last night
夜よる— evening, night
今夜こんや— tonight, this evening
徹夜てつや— staying up all night
夜明けよあけ— dawn, daybreak
深夜しんや— late at night, the dead of night
夜間やかん— nighttime, at night
夜行やこう— night travel, overnight (train/bus)

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