晏

晏 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日十女 (AJV), four-corner 6040₄, composition ⿱日安)

• 暥, 䁙, 騴(𫘫), 鼹, 䨃, 鷃(𮭨), 䰋

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 495, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13914
• Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1509, character 7
• Unihan data for U+664F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaːns, *qraːns): semantic 日 + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn).

晏

1. late; near the end of a period of time

   • 及年歲之未晏兮，時亦猶其未央。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     及年岁之未晏兮，时亦犹其未央。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Jí niánsuì zhī wèi yàn xī, shí yì yóu qí wèiyāng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. late in the day

   晏起  ―  yànqǐ  ―  to get up late

   晏晝／晏昼 [Cantonese]  ―  aan³ zau³ [Jyutping]  ―  afternoon

   放工嗰時好塞車，搞到好晏先返到屋企。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   放工嗰时好塞车，搞到好晏先返到屋企。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   fong³ gung¹ go² si⁴ hou² sak¹ ce¹, gaau² dou³ hou² aan³ sin¹ faan¹ dou^3-2 uk¹ kei². [Jyutping]

   The traffic was quite bad when I left work, so I got home really late.

   天氣報告講今朝晏歇會落雨末。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   天气报告讲今朝晏歇会落雨末。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ¹thi-chi₅ ⁶yu-kau₅ ⁵kaon ¹cin-tsau₁ ⁵e-shiq₇ ⁶we ⁸loq ⁶yu ⁰meq [Wugniu]

   The weather forecast said it'll rain later today.

   Late Qing/Early Republic, 《蘇六娘金釵羅帕記》, volume 3, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 11v:

   做乜障晏未走起 [Teochew, trad. and simp.]

   zo³ mih⁴ ziên³ uan³ bhuê⁷ zao² ki² [Peng'im]

   It is so late, why has [he] not yet gotten up?

3. (Cantonese) lunch (Classifier: 餐 c)

   食晏 [Cantonese]  ―  sik⁶ aan³ [Jyutping]  ―  to have lunch

4. sunny and cloudless
5. peaceful; tranquil; serene

   河清海晏  ―  héqīng hǎiyàn  ―  the (Yellow) River is clear and the sea is calm; the world is peaceful and prosperous

6. a surname

   晏殊  ―  Yàn Shū  ―  Yan Shu (Song dynasty poet)

• (late):

• (lunch):

• “晏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “晏”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “晏（晚也）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 211.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. late
2. quiet
3. sets (sun)

• Go-on: あん (an)、えん (en)
• Kan-on: あん (an)
• Kun: おそい (osoi, 晏い)

From Middle Chinese 晏 (MC 'anH|'aenH).

晏(あん) • (an) 

1. late (of time)
2. peaceful; tranquil; calm; quiet

晏 • (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune–Reischauer an, Yale an)

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晏: Hán Nôm readings: yến

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