晚
wǎnTraditional: 晚
Translation
late, evening
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the sun radical 日 (rì) on the left signalling time of day and 免 (miǎn) supplying the sound. It refers to the late part of the day and to lateness generally.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 日 (rì, sun) + 免 (miǎn, phonetic)
Stroke order
晚
Examples
。
It is already very late.
，。
Sorry, I am late.
。
Let us go to bed a bit later today.
。
The train was ten minutes late.
。
There is still time if you do it a little later.
晚 (wǎn) means late or evening. It describes both a late hour and the latter part of the day.
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 晚.
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