(wǎn shang) - evening, night in Mandarin

wǎnshang

Traditional: 晚上

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Translation

evening, night

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Word origin

A two-character compound. 晚 (wǎn) 'evening, late' joins 上 (shàng) 'on, upon', a common time suffix, giving the meaning evening or night. 晚 is a phono-semantic compound with the 日 'sun' radical and 免 (miǎn) as phonetic.

Origin
compound
Root
晚 (wǎn, 'evening'; 日 sun radical + 免 phonetic) + 上 (shàng, time suffix)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 晚

晚

Stroke order for 上

上

Examples

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Are you free this evening?

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I don't go out at night.

!

Good evening!

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Let us have dinner together this evening.

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Let us have dinner together this evening.

晚上 (wǎn shang) - evening, night.

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This word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 4: 晚上, 玩, 见到 and 6 more words.