Chinese Character Wiki
晚

wǎn

night

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 免 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

免 sound component

免  Sound component

miǎn, wèn

  

(hat), avoid

Evolution

晚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
晚 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
晚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

晚  

wǎn

night, evening; late; evening; night

Most common words with 晚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晚上

evening

今晚

tonight

晚

evening

昨晚

last night

晚安

Good night!

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m[o][r]ʔ

mjonX

wǎn

late


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 94.1214% of movies

166th most common character in movies

641st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+665A

Shuowen

“晚，莫也。从日，免聲。”


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