晏 (aan3 | yan4) : late, quiet, peaceful

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

晏

aan3

yan4

[1] peaceful; quiet [2] clear (sky, sea, water, etc.) [3] late [4] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 10

Level: 3

Radical: 日 (#72)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

晏

This word has been viewed 8549 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

Output this character as a high resolution image

晏晝 aan3 zau3 = afternoon 粵

食晏 sik6 aan3 = to eat lunch 粵

晏晝飯 aan3 zau3 faan6 = lunch 粵

晏啲 aan3 di1 = after a while; later 粵

晏覺 aan3 gaau3 = afternoon nap 粵

搵餐晏仔 wan2 caan1 aan3 zai2 wen4 can1 yan4 zai3 = to make a living; to earn one's keep; to maintain one's livelihood 粵

瞓晏覺 fan3 aan3 gaau3 fen3 yan4 jiao4 = to take an afternoon nap; a siesta 粵

海晏 hoi2 aan3 hai3 yan4 = Haiyan (place in Qinghai)

蔡昇晏 coi3 sing1 aan3 cai4 sheng1 yang4 = Matthew Tsai

Showing all 2 examples containing 晏

我一點喺灣仔食晏。粵
I have lunch in Wanchai at 1:00 p.m.
["People + time + place + action" is one of the most common sentence patterns in Cantonese.]

朝早食嗰碗粥稀冧冧，未到晏晝就餓嘅嘞粵
The bowl of porridge you had this morning was so watery. You will be hungry before noon.

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/510/]晏[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/510/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">晏</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 晏
Unicode code for this character: U+664F (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum