| 熱帯夜 | sultry night, sweltering night | 
短夜 短か夜 | short summer night | 
| 夜の帳 | veil of darkness | 
| 幾夜も | for several nights | 
| 深夜族 | the night owls | 
| 昼夜を分かたず | by day and night, day and night, round the clock | 
| 百夜 | many nights, hundred nights | 
| 闇夜に鉄砲 | aimless attempt, shot in the dark | 
| 終夜運転 | all-night service | 
| 深夜放送 | late-night (all-night) broadcasting | 
| 夜行性 | nocturnality, nocturnal habits | 
| 八十八夜 | eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring | 
| 夜間着陸訓練 | night landing practice, NLP | 
| 月夜見の尊 | Moon God, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto, brother of Amaterasu | 
| 夜遅く | late at night, at a late hour | 
| 明夜 | tomorrow night | 
| 夜目遠目 | seen in the dark or at a distance, (a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance | 
夜が明ける 夜があける | dawn breaks, day dawns | 
| 一夜大尽 | overnight millionaire | 
| 小夜時雨 | light shower on a night in late autumn and early winter | 
| 如法暗夜 | total (utter) darkness | 
| 日毎夜毎 | every day and every night, day after day, daily | 
| 無明長夜 | the long night of spiritual darkness | 
| 闇夜の烏 | something indistinct, a crow in a pitch-black night | 
| 闇夜に烏 | something indistinct, a crow in a pitch-black night | 
| 夜糞峰榛 | Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa) | 
夜のしじま 夜の静寂 | stillness of night | 
| 後夜祭 | an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing | 
| 夜を明かす | to intentionally pass the night without sleeping until morning | 
| 水晶の夜 | Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938) | 
| 夜型 | nocturnal (person) | 
| 夜も日も明けない | cannot live even a minute without someone or something, meaning the world to one | 
| 夜の目も寝ず | sitting up all night, staying up all night | 
| 半通夜 | wake, vigil (that does not last the full night) | 
通夜振る舞い 通夜ぶるまい | dinner and drinks served after a wake | 
夜を日に継いで 夜を日についで | day and night, turning night into day | 
| 夜間高校 | evening high school | 
| 夜直 | night duty, night shift | 
| 夜行列車 | night train | 
| 五夜 | the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am) | 
| 丙夜 | third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am) | 
| 丁夜 | fourth division of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am) | 
| 戊夜 | fifth division of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am) | 
| 闇夜の鉄砲 | aimless attempt, shot in the dark | 
| 闇夜の礫 | aimless attempt, shot in the dark | 
| 焼け野の雉夜の鶴 | parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) |