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熬夜

áo yè

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

熬夜 (áo yè) means "to stay up late or all night". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 熬夜 means

1. to stay up late or all night

The characters in 熬夜

• 熬áoto cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
• 夜yènight

Example sentences

• 我习惯熬夜。
  I am used to sitting up late.
• 她习惯熬夜。
  She is in the habit of keeping late hours.
• 我又熬夜了。
  I stayed up all night again.
• 玛丽昨晚熬夜。
  Mary stayed up late last night.
• 她熬夜习惯了。
  She is used to staying up late.
• 我们习惯熬夜。
  We're used to staying up late.

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