一夜之间

Traditional form:

一夜之間

Pinyin (reading):

yīyèzhījiān

Definitions:

• (lit. and fig.) overnight

Characters:

• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 间 - between, among; midpoint; space, place, locality

Traditional characters:

• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 間 - between, among; midpoint; space, place, locality