晚上
wǎn shang
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Evening and night: the time from dusk until you go to bed. 晚上好 is 'good evening', 晚上八点 eight in the evening, and 今天晚上 'tonight'. It goes before the verb: 我晚上不喝茶 'I don't drink tea in the evening'. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Buổi tối, ban đêm: từ lúc trời tối cho đến khi đi ngủ. 晚上好 là “chào buổi tối”, 晚上八点 là tám giờ tối, 今天晚上 là “tối nay”. Từ này đứng trước động từ: 我晚上不喝茶 (buổi tối tôi không uống trà). Âm tiết sau đọc thanh nhẹ.
NounRegister: 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 “晚上” mean?
Evening and night: the time from dusk until you go to bed. 晚上好 is 'good evening', 晚上八点 eight in the evening, and 今天晚上 'tonight'. It goes before the verb: 我晚上不喝茶 'I don't drink tea in the evening'. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Is “晚上” formal or informal?
晚上 is generally neutral.