夜行

yèxíng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 nocturnal
  2. 2 to travel at night

Examples

HSK 5
Biānfú shì yèxíng dòngwù, báitian shuìjiào, wǎnshang chūlai zhǎo chī de.
Bats are nocturnal animals: they sleep by day and come out at night to look for food.
HSK 7-9
Gǔdài de shāngrén pà yùdào qiángdào, yìbān bù gǎn yèxíng.
Merchants in the past were afraid of meeting robbers and seldom dared to travel at night.

Tips

usage
夜行 mostly appears in set terms: 夜行动物 'nocturnal animal', 夜行性 'nocturnal' in biology, and 夜行军 'a night march'. Its opposite in biology is 昼行性 'diurnal'.

Stroke Order

夜 yè
行 xíng