真ま夜よ中なか

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Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

Refers to the middle of the night, often emphasizing deep darkness or stillness. Can be used as a noun or adverbially.

真ま夜よ中なかに〈動どう詞し〉to do something in the middle of the night
真ま夜よ中なかに電でん話わが鳴なった。
The phone rang in the middle of the night.
真ま夜よ中なかまでuntil midnight/the middle of the night
真ま夜よ中なかまで勉べん強きょうしていた。
I studied until the middle of the night.
真ま夜よ中なかを過すぎるto pass midnight
気きづいたら真ま夜よ中なかを過すぎていた。
Before I knew it, it was past midnight.

深しん夜やN3
深夜 is a more formal or technical term for late night used in schedules and news, while 真夜中 is a colloquial word emphasizing the dark, still middle of the night.
夜よ中なかN3
夜中 loosely means 'during the night' without pinpointing the exact middle, whereas 真夜中 stresses the very center of the night.
ミッドナイト
真夜中 is the everyday native Japanese word for the middle of the night, while ミッドナイト is a stylish loanword often used in brand names or titles.
てっぺんN1
真夜中 is the standard, neutral word for midnight, while 天辺 is slang used mainly by night-shift or nightlife workers for the same time.
零れい時じ
真夜中 refers loosely to the middle of the night as a stretch of time, whereas 零時 is the precise clock time 0:00.

真ま昼ひる
真昼 means the middle of the day (broad daylight), the direct opposite of 真夜中, the middle of the night.
正しょう午ごN3
真夜中 means midnight, the exact opposite point of the day from 正午, which means noon.

Compound of 真 (ma, 'true, just') + 夜中 (yonaka, 'middle of the night'). The prefix 真 intensifies the meaning, giving 'the very middle of the night'.