JLPT N1 · 10 strokes
Kanji 宵: "wee hours, evening, early night"
The kanji 宵 means "wee hours, evening, early night". It is written with 10 strokes and belongs to JLPT level N1, read ショウ in on'yomi and よい in kun'yomi.
Stroke order
Strokes are written in the order of the numbers. The order is not decorative: it is what gives the character its balance, and it is also how handwriting search works in Japanese dictionaries.
Readings
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ショウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
よい
In a kun'yomi reading, the dot separates the kanji from its okurigana: かた.る is read かたる and written 語る. A hyphen marks a bound position, like -び in 日.
At a glance
| Meaning | wee hours, evening, early night |
|---|---|
| Strokes | 10 |
| JLPT level | N1 |
| Taught in Japan | secondary school |
| Frequency rank | 2262 of 2,501 |
Common words with 宵
The most frequent words using this kanji, most common first, with furigana readings. Click one to open it in the reader.
- 今宵this evening; tonight
- 宵evening; early night hours
- 宵闇dusk; twilight
- 宵の口nightfall; early evening
- 宵月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)
- 宵越し(kept) overnight
- 宵の明星evening star; Vesper; Hesperus; Venus in the evening sky
- 宵山small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival)
- 徹宵all night; without sleep
- 春の宵spring evening
- 春宵spring evening
- 元宵節lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar
Keep going
Read real Japanese, not lists
A kanji list does not teach you to read. KanjiYome puts furigana and a dictionary on any Japanese text, offline, and turns the words you meet into review cards.