晚 wǎn

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. wǎn noun dusk; twilight
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '晚' n 1)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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

• 为时不晚(為時不晚) it is not too late
• 晚上 evening; night
• 晚报(晚報) evening paper
• 多早晚 when?
• 晚期 late period
• 晚半天儿(晚半天兒) late afternoon
• 晚婚晚育 to marry and give birth late
• 一天到晚 all day long; the whole day
• 晚点(晚點) (of trains etc) late; delayed; behind schedule; light dinner
• 晚晌 evening
• 晚期癌症 terminal cancer
• 春节联欢晚会(春節聯歡晚會) Spring Festival Gala; Spring Festival banquet
• 晚清 the late Qing; late 19th and early 20th century China
• 患晚期 terminal stage (of illness)
• 晚礼服(晚禮服) evening dress
• 当晚(當晚) on that evening
• 晚翠 green scenery at dusk ; evergreen
• 就晚了 then it's too late
• 晚娘 stepmother
• 识荆恨晚(識荊恨晚) It is a great honor to meet you and I regret it is not sooner
• 岁月忽已晚(歲月忽已晚) the months and years swiftly draw to their close
• 悔之已晚 too late to be sorry
• 晚景 evening scene; circumstances of one's declining years
• 傍晚 night fall; dusk
• 晚上好 good evening!
• 晚年 one's remaining years
• 晚场(晚場) evening show (at theater etc)
• 晚世 nowadays
• 早出晚归(早出晚歸) to leave early and return late
• 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
• 为时已晚(為時已晚) already too late
• 早晚 morning and evening ; sooner or later ; when ; right away
• 前晚 the evening before last
• 春晚 Spring Festival Gala Gala; Spring Festival banquet
• 昨晚 yesterday evening; last night
• 晚生 I; me
• 晚辈(晚輩) the younger generation; those who come after
• 最后的晚餐(最後的晚餐) the Last Supper (in the Christian Passion story)
• 好饭不怕晚(好飯不怕晚) the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten
• 如火晚霞 clouds at sunset glowing like fire
• 犹未为晚(猶未為晚) it is not too late
• 朝晚 from early to late
• 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
• 挨晚 dusk; near evening
• 晚霞 sunset glow; sunset clouds; afterglow
• 头晚(頭晚) previous night

Also contained in

爱晚亭 、 法制晚报 、 李承晚 、 孟晚舟 、 晚唐

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
• 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 第三十六回 Chapter 36 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
• 卷二十六 天文志 Volume 26: Treatise on Astronomy Book of Han 漢書 — count: 7
• 《天官書》 Astronomy Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 6
• 第四十五回 Chapter 45 Water Margin 水滸傳 — 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
• 卷二十一 Scroll 21 Wenxuan 文選 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 晚水 (晚水) 歲早旱晚水 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 4
• 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
• 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
• 晚朝 (晚朝) 故康王晚朝 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 2
• 晚暮 (晚暮) 子孫之詳猶恐晚暮 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十七 蓋諸葛劉鄭孫毌將何傳 Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He — count: 2