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Mythic Mandarin

夜里 (yè li): meaning and stroke order

夜里 (yè li) means during the night, at night, nighttime.

夜里

Simplified
夜里
Traditional
夜裡
Pinyin
yè li

Stroke order of 夜里

夜

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

Stroke by stroke

里

  • lǐ variant of 裡|里[li3]
  • lǐ lining; interior
  • Lǐ Li (surname)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 裏

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 夜里

  1. yè li Traditional 夜裡
    • during the night
    • at night
    • nighttime

Radicals of the characters

夜
Radical 夕 (Kangxi radical 36) · 8 strokes
里
Radical 里 (Kangxi radical 166) · 7 strokes · built from 日 and 土

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.

夜里 in our stories

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  • 那天夜里,张别古起来,刚把瓦盆放在地上,盆里竟然传出了一个男人的哭声:“老伯伯,我死得好冤啊!”

    nà tiān yèli Zhāng Biégǔ qǐlai gāng bǎ wǎpén fàng zài dì shàng pén lǐ jìngrán chuánchū le yí gè nánrén de kūshēng lǎo bóbo wǒ sǐ de hǎo yuān a

    That night Zhang Biegu got up, and as soon as he set the basin down, a man's weeping came from inside it: "Old uncle, I died so unjustly!"

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 夜里

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).