Entry
  1. Noun

    night chat; tale told at night

  2. evening tea party (starting around 6pm)

  3. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix

    book of informal essays

Also written 夜咄【よばなし】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

night, evening

Kun
よる
On
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
487 of 2500
Radical
evening
WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-2-6, 3-3-5, 3-4-4SKIP code
2j6.1The Kanji Dictionary
0024.7Four corner code
467deroo
591cUnicode hex code
1-44-75JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
298Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1129New Nelson (John Haig)
2056New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2550Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1301Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1770Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1037Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1115Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
258A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
766Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
336Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5763Morohashi
212A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
471Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
479Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
144sakade
150Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
232henshall3
169Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
318crowley
93Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.17busy_people
406Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1046Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ye4Pinyin reading
yaKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

tale, talk

Kun
はな.すはなし
On
Strokes
13
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N5
Frequency
134 of 2500
Radical
speech
WaniKani
Level 8

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-7-6SKIP code
7a6.8The Kanji Dictionary
0266.4Four corner code
3077deroo
8a71Unicode hex code
1-47-35JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4358Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5608New Nelson (John Haig)
1527New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1928Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1027Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1388Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
344Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
368Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
133A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
180Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
35441Morohashi
221A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
238Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
238Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151sakade
86Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
240henshall3
229Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
125crowley
178Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.2busy_people
1684Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
350Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
hua4Pinyin reading
hwaKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
8WaniKani level