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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晚* | 晚* | *晚
evening / night / late
HSK 1
evening meal; dinner / CL: , 頓|顿,
HSK 2
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
Good night! / Good evening!
HSK 2
evening / night / CL: 個|个 / in the evening
HSK 1
evening party / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)
HSK 5
in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk
HSK 6
scheduled evening self-study period; evening study hall
evening newspaper / (in a newspaper's name) Evening News
HSK 2
(Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear formal evening gowns
evening / night
HSK 7-9
double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
tonight / this evening
evening school / night school
HSK 7-9
lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold
HSK 7-9
dusk / evening / nightfall
HSK 7-9
morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future
HSK 6
Xinmin Evening News
ceremonial robe / formal attire (dinner suit, evening gown etc)
HSK 7-9
(skincare regimen) Vitamin C in the morning, Vitamin A in the evening (original meaning) / (jocular) coffee in the morning, alcohol in the evening
morning and evening visits to parents / cf 昏定晨省
Good evening!
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth
the same evening
HSK 7-9
serve Qin in the morning Chu in the evening (idiom); quick to switch sides
to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom) / to quickly amend one's ways
to close shop in the evening / also pr. [da3 yang2]
yesterday evening / last night
lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement to study or progress
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
early evening when lanterns are first lit
Beijing Evening News
(Tw) evening program (at a college) / night school
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth
tomorrow evening
lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening / to correct an error very quickly (idiom)
Legal Evening News, a Beijing-based legal affairs newspaper launched in 2004 and shut down in 2019
towards evening
(literary) evening mist
rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
on that evening
the second half of the night; early morning (cf. 小夜, evening) / (fig.) eternal rest; death / (Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk
evening show (at a theater etc) / nighttime entertainment venue (bar, nightclub, disco etc)
evening
at dusk / evening
cram class / cram school / evening classes
evening college
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暮* | 暮* | *暮
evening / sunset
an evening scene / fig. one's old age
evening mist
spare-time education / evening classes
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *汐* | 汐* | *汐
night tides / evening ebbtide / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
evening scene / circumstances of one's declining years
fine evening, beautiful scenery (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夕* | 夕* | *夕
(bound form) sunset; dusk / (bound form) evening; night / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
evening dress
the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜, early morning)
evening primrose
lit. breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening (idiom) / fig. to do nothing but eat and drink
evening shift; early night shift
evening mist / fig. declining spirits / lethargy
morning dew, evening mist (idiom); ephemeral / impermanent
lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice / the passage of time in a disciplined existence
evening show (at theater etc)
lit. one morning and one evening (idiom) / fig. in a short period of time / overnight
to depart in the evening and arrive the next morning / overnight (train)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餔* | 餔* | *餔
to eat / evening meal
evening college (abbr. for 夜大學|夜大学)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *旰* | 旰* | *旰
sunset / evening
evening prayer / evensong / vespers
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)


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