晚熟

Chinese

		evening; night; late	familiar; skilled; ripe familiar; skilled; ripe; done; cooked
simp. and trad. (晚熟)		晚	熟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎnshú, wǎnshóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄨˊ, ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁵ suk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, literary; standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎnshú
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎnshú
    • Wade–Giles: wan³-shu²
    • Yale: wǎn-shú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woanshwu
    • Palladius: ваньшу (vanʹšu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, colloquial; standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎnshóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎnshóu
    • Wade–Giles: wan³-shou²
    • Yale: wǎn-shóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woanshour
    • Palladius: ваньшоу (vanʹšou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁵ suk⁶
    • Yale: máahn suhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁵ suk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁵ sug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn¹³ sʊk̚²/

Verb

晚熟

1. (of crop) to mature late
2. (of body, intellect, etc.) to mature late

Antonyms

• 早熟 (zǎoshú)