He slept well last night.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
昨晚
yesterday evening
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
yesterday evening
02
last night
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 昨晚 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 昨晚 appears in 201 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A fire broke out in my neighborhood last night.
Why couldn't you sleep last night?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 昨晚.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 昨晚.
Directly before
- 我昨晚54
- 你昨晚17
- 我们昨晚10
- 他昨晚10
- 汤姆昨晚8
Directly after
- 昨晚我13
- 昨晚做13
- 昨晚在9
- 昨晚的7
- 昨晚睡得6
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 昨晚
What does 昨晚 mean in Chinese?
昨晚 (zuówǎn) means yesterday evening.
How do you pronounce 昨晚?
昨晚 is pronounced zuówǎn.
Is 昨晚 an HSK word?
昨晚 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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