晩

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 晩ご飯は七時です。▶ —
   Dinner is at 7.
2. 昨日の晩、雨が降りました。▶ —
   It rained yesterday evening.

Collocations

Mnemonic

晩 ban — evening / early night, from just after sunset to bedtime. Common in meal vocab: 晩ご飯 bangohan (dinner). Onyomi same as kunyomi: ばん. The greeting こんばんは belongs to ban's time slot. Narrower than yoru (whole dark period).

Quick check

1. The most common word for dinner in Japanese is:

   • 晩ご飯 bangohan (everyday)
   • 夕食 yuushoku (formal/written)
   • ディナー (loanword, restaurant context)
   • 夜の食事 (descriptive, less idiomatic)