宵

Vocabulary (12)

• 宵越し

  よいごし

  (kept) overnight

• 春宵一刻

  しゅんしょういっこく

  a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold)

• 春宵一刻値千金

  しゅんしょういっこくあたいせんきん

  a moment of time in a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold

• 終宵

  しゅうしょう

  all-night long

• 宵待草

  よいまちぐさ

  evening primrose

• 待宵草

  まつよいぐさ

  evening primrose (esp. Chilean evening primrose, Oenothera stricta)

• 宵積み

  よいづみ

  goods loaded in the afternoon for delivery the following morning

• 元宵節

  げんしょうせつ

  lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

• 半宵

  はんしょう

  midnight

• 元宵

  げんしょう

  night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

• 大待宵草

  おおまつよいぐさ

  red-sepaled evening primrose (Oenothera erythrosepala)

• 宵山

  よいやま

  small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival)