宵 (xiāo)
night
How 宵 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Traditional
- 宵
- Simplified
- 宵 (unchanged)
Components
- 宀 roof
- ⺌ small
- 月 moon
Common words using 宵
- 通宵 tōngxiāo
- overnight
- 元宵 yuánxiāo
- Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month; see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4]
- 夜宵 yèxiāo
- midnight snack
- 宵夜 xiāoyè
- midnight snack; late-night snack
- 元宵節 yuánxiāojié
- Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
- 宵禁 xiāojìn
- night curfew
- 打通宵 dǎtōngxiāo
- to spend the whole night
宵 in a sentence
我們去夜市吃宵夜吧。
Wǒmen qù yèshì chī xiāoyè ba.
“Let's go to the night market for a midnight snack.”
How common is 宵?
宵 is the 3,125th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.3% of all running text.
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