晚 wǎn
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wǎn
noun
evening; night
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: In the sense of 夜间 (Guoyu '晚' n 2; Kroll 2015 '晚' 1, p. 468; Unihan '晚'; XHZD '晚' 1, p. 776) -
wǎn
adverb
late
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: (Guoyu '晚' adv; Kroll 2015 '晚' 2, p. 468; Unihan '晚'; XHZD '晚' 2, p. 776) -
wǎn
noun
dusk; twilight
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '晚' n 1) -
wǎn
noun
afterwards
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 后来 (Guoyu '晚' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '晚' 2, p. 468; XHZD '晚' 3, p. 776) -
wǎn
noun
a name for an older person to refer to themselves
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '晚' adj 1; XHZD '晚' 4, p. 776) -
wǎn
noun
late period; a declining era
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 末年; as in 晚年 (Kroll 2015 '晚' 3, p. 468)
Contained in
- 朝晚 from early to late
- 晚年 one's remaining years
- 最后晚餐(最後晚餐) the Last Supper
- 多早晚 when?
- 晚风(晚風) evening breeze
- 今晚 tonight
- 犹未为晚(猶未為晚) it is not too late
- 晚近 most recent in the past; recent; late; recently
- 头晚(頭晚) previous night
- 前晚 the evening before last
- 这早晚(這早晚) at that time
- 春节联欢晚会(春節聯歡晚會) Spring Festival Gala; Spring Festival banquet
- 就晚了 then it's too late
- 晚翠 green scenery at dusk ; evergreen
- 晚上好 good evening!
- 晚会(晚會) evening party
- 今晚谁当家(今晚誰當家) Jinwan Shei Dang Jia
- 君子报仇，十年不晚(君子報仇，十年不晚) for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long; revenge is a dish best served cold
- 岁月忽已晚(歲月忽已晚) the months and years swiftly draw to their close
- 晚育 late childbirth; to have a child at a later age
- 晚霞 sunset glow; sunset clouds; afterglow
- 晚世 nowadays
- 晚祷(晚禱) evening prayer; evensong; vespers
- 晚生 I; me
- 如火晚霞 clouds at sunset glowing like fire
- 春晚 Spring Festival Gala Gala; Spring Festival banquet
- 将晚(將晚) approaching nightfall
- 晚辈(晚輩) the younger generation; those who come after
- 晚清 the late Qing; late 19th and early 20th century China
- 晚场(晚場) evening show (at theater etc)
- 早晚 morning and evening ; sooner or later ; when ; right away
- 好饭不怕晚(好飯不怕晚) the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten
- 晚宴 banquet; dinner party; soiree
- 大器晚成 it takes a long time to make a big pot; a great talent matures slowly; in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state
- 晚半天儿(晚半天兒) late afternoon
- 为时不晚(為時不晚) it is not too late
- 为时未晚(為時未晚) it is not too late
- 昨晚 yesterday evening; last night
- 晚期 late period
- 晚婚晚育 to marry and give birth late
- 晚晌 evening
- 识荆恨晚(識荊恨晚) It is a great honor to meet you and I regret it is not sooner
- 夜晚 night
- 晚间(晚間) evening; night
- 患晚期 terminal stage (of illness)
Also contained in
晚唐 、 李承晚 、 北京晚报 、 爱晚亭 、 新民晚报 、 法制晚报
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 8
- 卷二十六 天文志 Volume 26: Treatise on Astronomy Book of Han 漢書 — count: 7
- 第三十六回 Chapter 36 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
- 卷二十一 Scroll 21 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 《天官書》 Astronomy Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 6
- 卷六十七 列傳第二十七 謝靈運 Volume 67 Biographies 27: Xie Lingyun Book of Song 宋書 — count: 6
- 第十一回 Chapter 11 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第十八回 Chapter 18 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 6
Collocations
- 未晚 (未晚) 用之未晚 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 26
- 蚤晚 (蚤晚) 齊時蚤晚 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷一 楚莊王第一 玉杯第二 Scroll 1 — count: 4
- 晚水 (晚水) 歲早旱晚水 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三 天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 4
- 死晚 (死晚) 吾死晚矣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《趙世家》 House of Zhao — count: 4
- 晚置 (晚置) 君老而晚置太子 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 難三第三十八 Chapter 38: Difficulties III — count: 4
- 不亦晚 (不亦晚) 不亦晚乎 — Xunzi 荀子, 法行篇第三十 Chapter 30: Model and Conduct — count: 4
- 恨晚 (恨晚) 臨川恨晚 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十一 列傳第二十一 皇甫謐 摯虞 束皙 王接 Volume 51 Biographies 21: Huangfu Mi; Zhi Yu; Shu Xi; Wang Jie — count: 3
- 晚救 (晚救) 君不如晚救之以敝晉 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說林上第二十二 Chapter 22: Collections of Persuasions I — count: 3
- 知晚 (知晚) 恨相知晚也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魏其武安侯列傳》 Biographies of the Marquis of Weiqi and the Marquis of Wu'an — count: 2
- 卿晚 (卿晚) 自以得使女尚司馬長卿晚 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 2