Chinese symbol for “tonight”
今晚
jīn wǎn
tonight
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tonight is 今晚 (jīn wǎn), defined as: tonight.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “tonight”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 今晚.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
| 今年 | jīn nián | this year |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 至今 | zhì jīn | so far; to this day |
| 如今 | rú jīn | nowadays; now |
| 晚上 | wǎn shang | evening; night |
| 昨晚 | zuó wǎn | yesterday evening; last night |
| 晚安 | wǎn ān | Good night!; Good evening! |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tonight”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.