夜空

Chinese

		night	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
trad. (夜空)		夜	空
simp. #(夜空)		夜	空

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yèkōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ ㄎㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁶ hung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yèkōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ ㄎㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yèkong
    • Wade–Giles: yeh⁴-kʻung¹
    • Yale: yè-kūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yehkong
    • Palladius: екун (jekun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: je⁶ hung¹
    • Yale: yeh hūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁶ hung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yé⁶ hung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²² hʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

夜空

1. night sky

Synonyms

• 晚空 (wǎnkōng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
夜	空
よ Grade: 2	そら > ぞら Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

From 夜(よ) (yo, “night”) + 空(そら) (sora, “sky”). The sora changes to zora as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) よぞら [yóꜜzòrà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [jo̞zo̞ɾa̠]

Noun

夜(よ)空(ぞら) • (yozora) 

1. night sky