宵

Meaning

宵 centers on the early part of the night: the evening hours just after sunset, including the wee hours before midnight.

• 今宵こよい

  this evening; tonight

• 宵よい

  evening; early night hours

• 宵闇よいやみ

  dusk; twilight

• 宵越しよいごし

  (kept) overnight

• 宵の口よいのくち

  nightfall; early evening

• 宵山よいやま

  small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival)

• 一宵いっしょう

  one evening; one night

• 元宵げんしょう

  night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

• 元宵節げんしょうせつ

  lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

• 半宵はんしょう

  midnight

• 名の無い星は宵から出るなのないほしはよいからでる

  the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first

• 大待宵草おおまつよいぐさ

  large-flowered evening primrose (Oenothera glazioviana)

• 宵っぱりよいっぱり

  night owl; nighthawk; late bird

• 宵の明星よいのみょうじょう

  evening star; Vesper; Hesperus; Venus in the evening sky

• 宵寝よいね

  going to bed early

• 宵待草よいまちぐさ

  evening primrose

• 宵月よいづき

  evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month)

• 宵月夜よいづきよ

  moonlit evening

• 宵祭りよいまつり

  small festival held the night before the main festival; eve of a festival

• 宵積みよいづみ

  goods loaded in the afternoon for delivery the following morning

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