HSK 5 · Time

傍晚 bàngwǎn “dusk” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 傍晚 means

  1. dusk
  2. early evening
  3. towards evening
  4. in the evening
  5. when night falls
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • at night fall
  • at dusk

How to say 傍晚

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale傍bàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale晚wǎn3rd tone, dipping

傍晚 in a sentence

  1. 我们傍晚通常在家。

    Wǒmen bàngwǎn tōngcháng zài jiā.

    We’re usually at home in the early evening.

    Sentence #13943735 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他在傍晚写诗。

    Tā zài bàngwǎn xiě shī.

    He writes poetry in the early evening.

    Sentence #9987058 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我们曾经总在星期六傍晚去看电影。

    Wǒmen céngjīng zǒng zài xīngqīliù bàngwǎn qù kàn diànyǐng.

    We used to go to the cinema on Saturday evenings.

    Sentence #5911761 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 傍晚 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 傍 (bàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
傍bàngnear
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 旁side · páng
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 傍晚

傍 12 strokes · 晚 11 strokes

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

Words related to 傍晚

Words with 晚

晚wǎn · evening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

More words: Time & Sequence

以后yǐhòu · after曾经céngjīng · once迟早chízǎo · sooner or later除夕Chúxī · lunar New Year’s Eve从此cóngcǐ · from now on昼夜zhòuyè · day and night逐年zhúnián · year after year作息zuòxī · work and rest

FAQs

傍晚 (bàngwǎn) means “dusk” or “early evening”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it bàngwǎn: bàng with a 4th tone, then wǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 傍晚 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bangwan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 傍晚 from the suggestions. Typing bangwan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
傍晚 is an HSK 5 word in the 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.