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半夜

the middle of the night

半夜
bànyè4th tone
Pinyin
bànyè
Strokes
13
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 半夜

半夜 is written with 13 strokes (半: 5, 夜: 8). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

半 (half) + 夜 (night). 半夜两点,大家都在睡觉。

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半夜 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

有一个办法是:半夜两点起床。

One idea is: get up at two in the middle of the night.

The Economist's Joke Memo: A Company Tries to Fix Its Staff's Sleep, and Everything Goes Wrong

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