晚

• Temporal: The period from sunset into the early night.
• Relative: Occurring after the expected, proper, or early time (e.g., tardy, delayed). This includes references to the final stage of life.

• Functions as a noun (evening), adjective, or adverb (late).
• In predicate use, it can indicate either that the hour is advanced ("It is late") or that an action is overdue ("This is too late").
• Often appears in a binary symmetry with 早 (early/morning).

When distinguishing between terms for "evening":

• 暮 emphasizes twilight or the fading of light.
• 夕 is more frequently poetic or refers to the specific transition point of dusk.
• 夜 refers to the deep night.
• 晚 generally designates the period itself.

Variant U+6669 is a formal variant and carries no distinct semantic weight.

The component 免 serves as a phonetic. Suggestions of a semantic link between this component and "avoidance" or "withdrawal" (the sun withdrawing from the sky) are interpretive preferences rather than lexical rules.

Be aware of the lexical overlap between "evening" and "late." In constructions such as [Subject] + [Verb] + 晚, the text may be specifying when an action occurred ("in the evening") or that the action was delayed ("late"). This must be resolved based on narrative intent.