Illustration: In a dark apartment kitchen, a pajama-clad adult crouches before an open refrigerator, trying to unwrap a small leftover rice ball without making noise. Through the half-open adjoining door, a partner and child sleep under rumpled bedding.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

夜よ中なか

yonaka

middle of the night

Example sentences

  1. 夜中よなかに台所だいどころで物ものが壊こわれる音おとがした。

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

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  2. 僕ぼくらは夜中よなかの２時じまで話はなしていた。

    We talked until two in the morning.

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  3. 夜中よなか過すぎに起おきました。

    We woke up after midnight.

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Kanji in 夜中

  • 夜night; eveningOnヤKunよ・よる
  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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