每晚 (měi wǎn) — every night, every evening

Definition

pronoun

every nightevery evening

Examples

每晚。
Wǒ měi wǎn dōu fù xí zhōng wén.
I review Chinese every evening.
每晚。
Tā měi wǎn jiān chí pǎo bù.
He insists on running every evening.
每晚。
Zhè jiā kā fēi guǎn měi wǎn dōu kāi dào hěn wǎn.
This café stays open very late every evening.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

每měievery

晚wǎnnight

Every night: 每 means each, 晚 means evening.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

屮屮chè
母母mǔwoman

每 shows 母, a woman, with a top part resembling 屮. That part may represent a hairpin marking her as grown up, or a sprout marking her as ready to marry and have children.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

日免晚

Meaning part形符xíngfú

日日rì

Sound part声符shēngfú

免

免miǎn晚wǎn

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

晚 pairs 日, the sun part, with 免, which supplies the sound.

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