Illustration: A baker unlocks a neighborhood bakery while the surrounding residential street remains dark and still. Upstairs windows are unlit, metal shutters cover adjacent shops, and stars remain visible above a completely dark eastern horizon.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

未み明めい

mimei

before dawn

Often refers to the hours just after midnight. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 翌よく5月がつ29日にち未明みめいにイルティッシュ号ごうは沈没ちんぼつ。

    Before dawn on the following day, May 29, the Irtysh sank.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 播磨口はりまぐちの番所ばんしょは彼かれらを穏便おんびんに通とおし、12日にち未明みめいに生野いくのに入はいった。

    The guard house at Harimaguchi let them pass quietly and they arrived in Ikuno in the early morning of 12.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 一番寒いちばんさむい未明みめいから明あけ方がたの時間じかんに行おこなわれる。

    It is conducted during the coldest time of day, before dawn or at dawn.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 未明

  • 未un-; not yetOnミ・ビKunいまだ・まだ・ひつじ
  • 明bright; lightOnメイ・ミョウ・ミンKunあかり・あかるい・あかるむ

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