Sentence #333994 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 晚上 is built
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晚wǎnevening
日sun · rì
免to spare · miǎn
Memory aidSun 日 with 免 (miǎn) for the sound: evening, late.
上shǎngup; upper; above; previouslight in 晚上
⺊divination form of 卜 · bǔ
一one · yī
Memory aidA short stroke above the line: up, on top.
How to write 晚上
晚 11 strokes · 上 3 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 晚上 (wǎnshang). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
晚上 (wǎnshang) means “evening” or “night”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it wǎnshang: wǎn with a 3rd tone, then shang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 晚上 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one evening is 一个晚上 (yí ge wǎnshang).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wanshang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晚上 from the suggestions. Typing wanshang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晚上 is an HSK 2 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.
晚wǎn3rd tone, dipping
上shangneutral tone, light and short
