Yeah, nice. Why is “night” not already a built in synonym? They are literally the same thing… [image]

Because night is 夜. They’re not the same thing in Japanese. … For that matter, they’re barely the same thing in English. I’d never use “evening” to refer to, say, 9pm or later.

Hi, there! I understand your frustration but would like to remind you to keep your language clean. If you want, just add the synonym yourself. It doesn’t take too long. Also technically, evening is the time of the day between daytime and night or between sunset and bedtime.

I guess it’s an dialect thing then? I would happily refer to anytime after 5 pm and before 6am as night. I finally added it as a synonym now. I’m pissed because it was a master review and now i have to send it all the way back through guru form a4

Aw, man. That sucks! I had a couple of those before. I don’t know about it being a dialect thing but I did find this online, and I think explains the difference between evening and night clearly: [user48070] the exact time of "evening" and "night" word-usage, difference …

If you look at a monolingual kanji dictionary, the meaning of that kanji is indeed the time around sunset and slightly after. Its opposite is 旦 or 朝, not 日 or 昼. So, no, it’s not an English dialect thing. But it’s like adding “day” as the meaning for 朝. Sure, morning is part of the day, but they …

I have it on my PC but i was doing reviews on my phone in bed. I wouldn’t use it for something like this that i genuinely got wrong

I use AlliCrab and it has the override script! But yeah, best not to abuse it. :slight_smile:

[image] anon82697664: I would happily refer to anytime after 5 pm and before 6am as night But would you refer to those same hours as evening? They may be pretty interchangeable until it gets later, 3 a.m can’t be called evening.

I mean, nobody in my area ever says evening so I’m not sure.

What a silly thing. (no more rudeness :))

WaniKani

Rakantor March 3, 2018, 9:03am 7

Get the Wanikani Override Script, it will make your life much easier.

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What a silly thing. (no more rudeness :))

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