IDENTITY
晚wǎnlate; evening
HSK 1Top 430
CORE MEANING
late; evening
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.eveningHSK1
- 2.lateHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 日sun radical (rì)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰日免
- sun
- gives the sound wǎn (historical)
USAGE
Common words
晚上wǎnshangevening
晚饭wǎnfàndinner
晚安wǎnāngood night
Graded examples
晚安！Wǎnān!HSK1
Good night!
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 挽
- 兔
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
The sun (日) setting and freeing (免) the day — evening.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #430
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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