晩ばん

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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

1

Refers to the time from sunset to bedtime. Often used in compounds and time expressions.

What will you do this evening?

晩ばんご飯はんを食たべましょう。

Let's eat dinner.

2

abbreviation

Abbreviation of 晩飯 (ばんめし). Casual, often used in compounds or set phrases.

〈場ば所しょ〉で晩ばんを過すごすto spend the evening at 〈場所〉
友とも達だちの家いえで晩ばんを過すごした。
I spent the evening at my friend's house.
晩ばんは〈物もの〉にするto decide on 〈物〉 for dinner tonight
今日きょうの晩ばんは寿す司しにする。
I'll have sushi for dinner tonight.
〈数かず〉晩ばん泊とまるto stay for a certain number of nights
温おん泉せん旅りょ館かんに三み晩ばん泊とまった。
We stayed at the hot spring inn for three nights.

その晩ばんthat night; that evening · over the course of the evening; during that evening
お晩ばんですgood evening
三みっ日か三み晩ばんthree days and three nights
晩ばん節せつを汚けがすruin one's reputation in later life; tarnish one's twilight years
朝あさから晩ばんまでfrom morning till night; all day long
月つき夜よの晩ばんばかりじゃないyou better watch your step!; sleep with one eye open!

夜よるN5sense 1
夜 is the general, neutral word for 'night', while 晩 specifically highlights the evening-to-bedtime period and often appears in time expressions like 今晩 or 毎晩.
晩ばん御ご飯はんN5sense 2
晩御飯 is the full, common word for 'dinner', while 晩 alone is a casual abbreviation used mainly in set phrases like 今晩は何?.
夕ゆう方がたN5sense 1
夕方 covers late afternoon into early evening, while 晩 refers to a slightly later stretch of time, closer to night.
夕ゆうべN5
晩 is a common, everyday word for 'evening/night', whereas 夕べ carries a poetic or literary flavor.

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夕ゆう
晩 tends to refer to the later part of the evening or night and appears in everyday words like 今晩, whereas 夕 points to the dusk period and is more literary.
宵よい
晩 is a plain, everyday word for 'evening/night' used in casual speech, while 宵 carries a literary or poetic tone.

朝あさN5sense 1
朝 means 'morning', the opposite end of the day from 晩, which means 'evening/night'.

番ばんN4
番 (turn, number, watch) is pronounced identically to 晩 (evening) but has a completely unrelated meaning, so listeners must rely on context.
泊はくN3
泊 counts the nights of a continuous stay (as in 二泊三日), while 晩 just counts nights in general without implying a trip or lodging.

The kanji 晩 combines 日 (sun/day) and 免 (phonetic component), originally meaning 'late in the day'. The reading ばん is the on'yomi.

dinner; formal dinner; banquet

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