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Mythic Mandarin

熬夜 (áo yè): meaning and stroke order

熬夜 (áo yè) means to stay up late or all night.

熬夜

Simplified
熬夜
Traditional
熬夜 (same form)
Pinyin
áo yè

Stroke order of 熬夜

熬

  • āo to boil; to simmer
  • áo to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

夜

  • yè variant of 夜[ye4]
  • yè night
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 亱

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 熬夜

  1. áo yè
    • to stay up late or all night

Radicals of the characters

熬
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 14 strokes · 敖 on top, 灬 below
夜
Radical 夕 (Kangxi radical 36) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

熬夜 in our stories

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  • 老医生看完心电图和所有的化验单，摘下眼镜，笑着问：“你最近是不是熬夜看手机，还每天喝三杯咖啡？”

    lǎo yīshēng kàn wán xīndiàntú hé suǒyǒu de huàyàndān zhāixià yǎnjìng xiào zhe wèn nǐ zuìjìn shì bu shì áoyè kàn shǒujī hái měitiān hē sān bēi kāfēi

    The old doctor looked over the ECG and every test result, took off his glasses and asked with a smile, "Have you been staying up late on your phone and drinking three coffees a day?"

    From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 熬夜

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).