三更半夜 (saam1 gang1 bun3 je6/2) — around mid-night in Cantonese | HKDictionary

saamˉ¹三gangˉ¹更bun˗₃半je6/2夜

Mandarin Pinyin: san1 geng1 ban4 ye4

Meaning of 三更半夜

nounaround mid-night

Characters in 三更半夜

three; third; thrice

a watch period (one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided starting at 7pm)

partly; about half

night; dark; darkness; in night

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