| 夜 | yè | night |
| 昼夜 | zhòu yè | day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop |
| 夜里 | yè lǐ | during the night; at night; nighttime |
| 日夜 | rì yè | day and night; around the clock |
| 夜间 | yè jiān | nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes) |
| 黑夜 | hēi yè | night |
| 半夜 | bàn yè | midnight; in the middle of the night |
| 夜晚 | yè wǎn | night; CL:个 |
| 深夜 | shēn yè | very late at night |
| 连夜 | lián yè | the same night; that very night; before this night is out |
| 夜校 | yè xiào | evening school; night school |
| 昨夜 | zuó yè | last night |
| 夜色 | yè sè | night scene; the dim light of night |
| 前夜 | qián yè | the eve; the night before |
| 夜班 | yè bān | night shift |
| 夜大学 | yè dà xué | evening college |
| 过夜 | guò yè | to spend the night; overnight |
| 午夜 | wǔ yè | midnight |
| 夜半 | yè bàn | midnight |
| 夜景 | yè jǐng | nightscape |
| 夜袭 | yè xí | night attack |
| 长夜 | cháng yè | long dark night; fig. long period of misery and oppression |
| 彻夜 | chè yè | the whole night |
| 夜市 | yè shì | night market |
| 夜以继日 | yè yǐ jì rì | night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort |
| 夜幕 | yè mù | curtain of night; gathering darkness |
| 上夜 | shàng yè | to be on night duty |
| 月夜 | yuè yè | moonlit night |
| 入夜 | rù yè | nightfall |
| 夜叉 | yè chà | yaksha (nature spirits) |
| 开夜车 | kāi yè chē | burn the midnight oil; work late into the night |
| 一千零一夜 | Yī qiān líng yī yè | The Book of One Thousand and One Nights |
| 一夜情 | yī yè qíng | one night stand |
| 一夜露水 | yī yè lù shui | one-night stand; ephemeral |
| 三更半夜 | sān gēng bàn yè | in the depth of the night; very late at night |
| 不分昼夜 | bù fēn zhòu yè | day and night; round-the-clock |
| 今夜 | jīn yè | tonight; this evening |
| 仲夏夜之梦 | Zhòng xià yè zhī mèng | Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亚 |
| 俾夜作昼 | bǐ yè zuò zhòu | lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard |
| 俾昼作夜 | bǐ zhòu zuò yè | to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour |
| 值夜 | zhí yè | on night duty |
| 元夜 | yuán yè | Lantern Festival; night of 15th of first lunar month; see also 元宵 |
| 前半夜 | qián bàn yè | first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight) |
| 半夜三更 | bàn yè sān gēng | in the depth of night; late at night |
| 卜昼卜夜 | bǔ zhòu bǔ yè | day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) |
| 夙夜 | sù yè | morning and night; always; at all times |
| 夙夜匪懈 | sù yè fěi xiè | to work from morning to night (idiom) |
| 夙兴夜寐 | sù xīng yè mèi | to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard; to study diligently; to burn the candle at both ends |
| 夜不归宿 | yè bù guī sù | to stay out all night (idiom) |
| 夜不闭户 | yè bù bì hù | lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society |
