(wǎn shàng) - evening, night in Mandarin
wǎnshàngTraditional: 晚上
Translation
evening, night
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
晚
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 shàng) - evening, night.
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