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晚

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evening; night; late

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HSK 3.0
Level 1
Old HSK
Level 2
Strokes
11
Radical
日 +7
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
晚
Common rank
#1,096
Unicode
U+665A

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Formation & memory

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How 晚 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Avoiding 免 the sun 日; 免 also provides the pronunciation

Components 日 免

How to remember it

nightfall · Heisig RSH #1450

sun + hare

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 晚

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
晚上 wǎn shang evening; night; CL:個|个[ge4]; in the evening
晚饭 wǎn fàn evening meal; dinner; supper; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
大器晚成 dà qì wǎn chéng lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly; i…
为时不晚 wéi shí bù wǎn it is not too late (idiom)
晚半天儿 wǎn ban tiān r late afternoon
新民晚报 Xīn mín Wǎn bào Xinmin Evening News
法制晚报 Fǎ zhì Wǎn bào Legal Evening News, a Beijing-based legal affairs newspaper launched in 2004 and shut down…
大晚上 dà wǎn shang very late at night
晚节不保 wǎn jié bù bǎo (idiom) to tarnish one's reputation in later life; to lose prestige at a later stage
一天到晚 yī tiān dào wǎn all day long; the whole day
晚上好 wǎn shàng hǎo Good evening!
君子报仇，十年不晚 jūn zi bào chóu , shí nián bù wǎn lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom); fig. revenge is a …
春节联欢晚会 Chūn jié Lián huān Wǎn huì CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special; abbr. to 春晚[Chun1 Wan3]
为时未晚 wéi shí wèi wǎn it is not too late (idiom)
春风深醉的晚上 Chūn fēng Shēn zuì de Wǎn shang Intoxicating Spring Nights, 1924 short story by Yu Dafu 郁達夫|郁达夫[Yu4 Da2 fu1]
北京晚报 Běi jīng Wǎn bào Beijing Evening News
头晚 tóu wǎn previous night
晚生 wǎn shēng I (self-deprecatory, in front of elders) (old)
晚安 wǎn ān Good night!; Good evening!
晚会 wǎn huì evening party; CL:個|个[ge4]