晚霞 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wǎnxiá

sunset glow

wǎn night

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 免 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

免 Sound component

miǎn (hat), avoid

Change in sound

晚 and 免 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
晚 *m[o][r]ʔ
免 *mr[o][r]ʔ

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjonX	m[o][r]ʔ	late

說文解字

《說文》：“晚，莫也。从日，免聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

xiá rosy clouds

Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

雨 Meaning component

yǔ rain

叚 Sound component

jiǎ, xiá false

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		ɡraː
Unicode	ha

說文解字

赤雲气也。从雨叚聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

晚 wǎn night

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

霞 xiá rosy clouds

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

wǎn night

xiá rosy clouds