HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Time

晚 wǎn “evening” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 晚 means

  1. evening
  2. night
  3. late

How to say 晚

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale晚wǎn3rd tone, dipping

晚 in a sentence

  1. 他从早工作到晚。

    Tā cóng zǎo gōngzuò dào wǎn.

    He works from morning till night.

    Sentence #1324867 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 晚上可能会下雨。

    Wǎnshang kěnéng huì xiàyǔ.

    It might rain tonight.

    Sentence #377448 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 晚 can also mean “late”

    有点儿晚了，我们该走了。

    Yǒudiǎnr wǎn le, wǒmen gāi zǒu le.

    It’s getting late, so we’d better get going.

    Sentence #778877 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 晚 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 晚 (wǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
晚wǎnevening
  • 日sun · rì
  • 免to spare · miǎn

Memory aidSun 日 with 免 (miǎn) for the sound: evening, late.

How to write 晚

晚 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

晚 (wǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 晚 (wǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 晚

Words with 晚

晚饭wǎnfàn · evening meal晚上wǎnshang · evening晚点wǎndiǎn · (of trains晚会wǎnhuì · evening party晚安wǎn'ān · good night傍晚bàngwǎn · dusk

More words: Time & Dates

后hòu · after今年jīnnián · this year明年míngnián · next year天tiān · day星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday早zǎo · early从小cóngxiǎo · from childhood

FAQs

晚 (wǎn) means “evening” or “night”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it wǎn: wǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 晚 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晚 from the suggestions. Typing wan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晚 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.