Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

晩: nightfall, night

JLPT N312 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

日 carries the meaning · 免 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

バンban · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 今晩こんばんtonight
  • 明晩みょうばんtomorrow evening
  • 昨晩さくばんlast night
  • 毎晩まいばんevery night
  • 晩御飯ばんごはんdinner
  • 晩ばんevening; night
  • 晩年ばんねんone's later years; final years (in life)
  • 一晩ひとばんone night; one evening

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)日 (meaning) + 免 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 晚 (rev. 91930973), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Sun (日) + withdraw/exempt (免). The time of day when the "sun" finally "withdraws" and disappears over the horizon—the coming of the evening.”
From the 日 sun story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
日

Also built on sun (日)

All 70
免

Also built on excuse (免)

The 免 sound family doesn't share one reading.

Also read バン

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
晩 nightfall · 日
vs勉 exertion · 力
晩 has 日 where 勉 has 力.
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 晚 · wǎn

晩 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 晚 in both simplified and traditional script.

Simplified
晚 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
晚 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin wǎn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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