晚

晚 U+665A, 晚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-665A ← 晙 [U+6659] CJK Unified Ideographs 晛 → [U+665B]

Stroke order

Note that in Japanese shinjitai, the bottom left handed stroke ㇓ of 免 is written as two separate components (𫩏+儿). This is encoded as a separate character 晩 (U+6669).

晚 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓日山 (ANAU), four-corner 6701₆, composition ⿰日免)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 495, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13940
• Dae Jaweon: page 861, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1514, character 4
• Unihan data for U+665A
• Standard Form by Ministry of Education of the Republic of China

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *monʔ) : semantic 日 + phonetic 免 (OC *mronʔ).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

晚

1. evening; night

   晚上  ―  wǎnshang  ―  evening

   晚風／晚风  ―  wǎnfēng  ―  evening wind

2. late (near the end of a period of time)

   晚秋  ―  wǎnqiū  ―  late autumn

   晚清  ―  wǎnqīng  ―  late Qing dynasty

3. late (in relation to the expected or proper time)

   我昨天晚上太晚睡覺了。 [MSC, trad.]
   我昨天晚上太晚睡觉了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ zuótiān wǎnshang tài wǎn shuìjiào le. [Pinyin]

   I slept too late last night.

   不好意思，你來晚了。 [MSC, trad.]
   不好意思，你来晚了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Bùhǎoyìsi, nǐ lái wǎn le. [Pinyin]

   Sorry, you came too late.

4. succeeding

   比他晚一輩／比他晚一辈  ―  bǐ tā wǎn yī bèi  ―  to be younger than him by one generation

5. old age; later years

   晚節／晚节  ―  wǎnjié  ―  integrity in one’s later years

6. Classifier for the number of nights.

• “晚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 晩)

1. evening
2. night
3. late

• On (unclassified): ばん (ban)
• Kun: くれ (kure, 晚れ)、おそい (osoi, 晚い)

This character is the kyūjitai form of 晩 (U+6669) with one stroke reduction.

From Middle Chinese 晚 (MC mjonX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ma̠(ː)n]
• Phonetic hangul: [만(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

晚

Wikisource

晚 (eumhun 늦을 만 (neujeul man))

1. hanja form^? of 만 (“evening; night”)
2. (only used in compounds) hanja form^? of 만 (“late”)

Note that the educational form of this hanja in South Korea is (U+665A) which has 口 overlapped by 丿 as its middle right component and not (U+6669), which consists of 𫩏 and 儿 as its bottom right component.

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

晚: Hán Nôm readings: vãn, muộn

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