晚
wǎn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Late: after the usual or expected time. 很晚了 means 'it's late', and after a verb it says the action came too late: 起晚了 'got up late'. Inside words it can mean evening: 晚上 'evening', 晚饭 'dinner'.
Muộn, trễ: sau giờ thường lệ hoặc sau lúc đã định. 很晚了 là “muộn rồi”; đặt sau động từ thì nói việc ấy làm muộn: 起晚了 (dậy muộn). Trong từ ghép nó còn có nghĩa là tối: 晚上 (buổi tối), 晚饭 (bữa tối).
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “晚” mean?
Late: after the usual or expected time. 很晚了 means 'it's late', and after a verb it says the action came too late: 起晚了 'got up late'. Inside words it can mean evening: 晚上 'evening', 晚饭 'dinner'.
Is “晚” formal or informal?
晚 is generally neutral.