(jīn wǎn) - tonight, this evening in Mandarin
jīnwǎnTraditional: 今晚
HSK 2
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Translation
tonight, this evening
Word origin
今晚 means 'tonight': 今 (jīn, 'now, present') plus 晚 (wǎn, 'evening', a phono-semantic compound of 日 the sun radical and 免 miǎn as phonetic).
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 今 (jīn, now) + 晚 (wǎn, evening: 日 sun + 免 phonetic)
Stroke order
今
晚
Examples
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Are you free tonight?
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Tonight we eat together.
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The weather is nice tonight.
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Tonight I am going to bed early.
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There is a football match tonight.
今晚 (jīn wǎn) means tonight, this evening. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
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