night, evening
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
その夜、ルーカスは新しい言葉をノートに書きました。
Sono yoru, Rūkasu wa atarashii kotoba o nooto ni kakimashita.
That night, Lucas wrote the new words in his notebook.
いいね。これで今夜の晩ご飯は大丈夫そう。
Ii ne. Kore de kon'ya no bangohan wa daijoubu sou.
Good. I think that covers dinner tonight.
夜中にアラームが鳴ったのは覚えてる。でも、何もわからなくて、また寝ちゃった。
Yonaka ni araamu ga natta no wa oboeteru. Demo, nani mo wakaranakute, mata nechatta.
I just remember an alarm going off in the middle of the night. I didn't understand any of it and went back to sleep.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0