HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Speaking

晚安 wǎn'ān “good night” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 晚安 means

  1. good night
  2. Good night!
  3. Good evening!

How to say 晚安

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale晚wǎn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale安ān1st tone, high and level

晚安 in a sentence

  1. 我要睡觉了，晚安。

    Wǒ yào shuìjiào le, wǎn'ān.

    I’m going to bed. Good night.

    Sentence #10042038 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 晚安。祝你做个好梦。

    Wǎn'ān. Zhù nǐ zuò ge hǎo mèng.

    Good night. Sweet dreams.

    Sentence #350666 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 晚安，明天见！

    Wǎn'ān, míngtiān jiàn!

    Good night. See you tomorrow!

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 晚安 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.

The character 安 (ān) with each of its parts in a different colour
安āncalm; peaceful
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 女woman · nǚ

Memory aidA woman 女 under a roof 宀: safe, peaceful.

How to write 晚安

晚 11 strokes · 安 6 strokes

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

Words related to 晚安

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傍晚bàngwǎn · dusk

Words with 安

安静ānjìng · quiet安排ānpái · to arrange安全ānquán · safe安装ānzhuāng · to install不安bù'ān · uneasy平安píng'ān · safe and sound安慰ānwèi · to comfort安置ānzhì · to find a place for安宁ānníng · peaceful安详ānxiáng · serene

More words: Speaking & Communication

听说tīngshuō · to hear (it said that)怎么办zěnmebàn · what should I do?聊liáo · to chat外语wàiyǔ · foreign language聊天儿liáotiānr · to chat加油jiāyóu · to cheer on提出tíchū · to put forward祝zhù · to wish (someone well)

FAQs

晚安 (wǎn’ān) means “good night” or “Good night!”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it wǎn’ān: wǎn with a 3rd tone, then ān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 晚安 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wanan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晚安 from the suggestions. Typing wanan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晚安 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 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). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.