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夜中 (よなか): midnight, dead of night — Japanese vocabulary

夜中 is read よなか and means "midnight, dead of night". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

夜中

Reading
よなか · yonaka
Translation
midnight, dead of night
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
よなかが

Example

夜中に台所で物が壊れる音がした。

よなかにだいどころでものがこわれるおとがした。

I heard something crashing in the kitchen in the middle of the night.

Kanji in this word

  • 夜 — night
  • 中 — middle, inside

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