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Mythic Mandarin

连夜 (lián yè): meaning and stroke order

连夜 (lián yè) means that very night, through the night, for several nights in a row.

连夜

Simplified
连夜
Traditional
連夜
Pinyin
lián yè

Stroke order of 连夜

连

  • Lián surname Lian
  • lián to link; to join
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 連

Stroke by stroke

夜

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 连夜

  1. lián yè Traditional 連夜
    • that very night
    • through the night
    • for several nights in a row

Radicals of the characters

连
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 8 strokes · built from 辶 and 车
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.

连夜 in our stories

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  • 龙王这才害怕起来，连夜去求唐太宗，因为负责行刑的，正是太宗的大臣魏征。

    Lóngwáng zhè cái hàipà qǐlai liányè qù qiú Táng Tàizōng yīnwèi fùzé xíngxíng de zhèngshì Tàizōng de dàchén Wèi Zhēng

    Only then did the Dragon King grow afraid. That very night he went to beg Emperor Taizong for help, for the one charged with the execution was none other than Taizong's minister Wei Zheng.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 连夜

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).