深夜

しんや
late at night

Reading

Readingしんや
N2 VocabJLPT N2
Kanji深夜

Meanings

  1. late at night

Synonyms

ミッドナイト夜更け真夜中

Real voices: how native speakers say it

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深夜になるとやたら小腹がすく
しんやになるとやたらこばらがすくWhen it gets to be the middle of the night, I get awfully peckish.
カラオケで深夜零時まで騒ぐ
からおけでしんやれいじまでさわぐPartying at karaoke until midnight.
深夜にドライブってのも悪くないね。
しんやにどらいぶってのもわるくないね。A midnight drive isn't bad, huh?

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 深夜

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