宵
宵 — Wee hours
wee hours, evening, early night
On’yomiショウ (shou)
Kun’yomiよい (yoi)
Stroke order (10 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 宵
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今宵 | こよい koyoi | this evening; tonight |
| 宵 | よい yoi | evening; early night hours |
Study notes
宵 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2262 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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