日暮

Chinese

		day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)	evening; dusk; sunset evening; dusk; sunset; (of time) late; closing
trad. (日暮)		日	暮
simp. #(日暮)		日	暮

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	日	暮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	人質切	莫故切
Baxter	nyit	muH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪt̚/	/muoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵit̚/	/muoH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjet̚/	/moH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵit̚/	/mɔH/
Li Rong	/ȵiĕt̚/	/moH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/	/muH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/	/muoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rì	mù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jat6	mou6

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	日
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rì
Middle Chinese	‹ nyit ›
Old Chinese	/*C.nik/
English	sun; day
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	日	暮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10845	9247
Phonetic component	日	莫
Rime group	質	暮
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	日	暮
Old Chinese	/*njiɡ/	/*maːɡs/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rìmù

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ ㄇㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat⁶ mou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rìmù
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ ㄇㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rìhmù
    • Wade–Giles: jih⁴-mu⁴
    • Yale: r̀-mù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ryhmuh
    • Palladius: жиму (žimu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat⁶ mou⁶
    • Yale: yaht mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁹ mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed⁶ mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚² mou̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: nyit muH

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*njiɡ  maːɡs/

Noun

日暮

1. nightfall; dusk; sunset; evening

Synonyms

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• 傍晚 (bàngwǎn)
• 傍黑 (bànghēi) (regional)
• 入暮 (rùmù)
• 向晚 (xiàngwǎn) (literary)
• 向暮 (xiàngmù) (literary)
• 夜色 (yèsè) (night scenery)
• 斷夜／断夜 (Hakka)
• 斷暗／断暗 (Hakka)
• 昏暮 (hūnmù) (literary)
• 晚來／晚来 (wǎnlái) (literary)
• 暝色 (míngsè) (literary or Teochew, night scenery)
• 暮色 (mùsè) (shades of evening)
• 落黑 (no² he²) (Sichuanese)
• 薄暮 (bómù) (literary)
• 遲暮／迟暮 (chímù) (literary)
• 黃昏／黄昏 (huánghūn)

 

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		暮, 夕, 黃昏, 薄暮, 向晚, 日暮
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		傍晚, 黃昏
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	擦黑兒, 傍晚兒
	Taiwan	傍晚
	Harbin	傍黑兒, 擦黑兒
	Singapore	傍晚
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	傍黑天兒, 傍黑兒天
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	傍傍黑兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	黑些兒
	Xi'an	擦黑, 後晌黑
	Xining	擦黑兒
	Xuzhou	捱黑兒, 捱傍黑兒, 下傍晚兒, 捱傍晚兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	擦黑, 麻麻黑, 打麻子眼兒
	Wuhan	煞黑, 挨黑
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	下晚, 下晚時候
Cantonese	Guangzhou	挨晚, 𨂾光黑, 齊黑
	Hong Kong	挨晚, 黃昏
	Taishan	埋黑
	Dongguan	挨晚, 齊黑, 將近齊黑
	Yangjiang	使黑, 煞黑
	Sanya (Yanglan; Maihua)	熱頭晚
Gan	Nanchang	臨夜邊子
Hakka	Meixian	臨暗, 臨夜, 臨暗邊, 斷暗, 斷夜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	臨暗仔, 臨暗邊, 臨暗頭
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	臨暗仔, 臨暗邊, 臨暗頭
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	臨暗仔, 臨暗邊, 臨暗頭
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	臨暗, 臨暗邊, 臨暗頭
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	臨暗仔, 臨暗, 臨暗邊, 臨暗頭
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	偎暗, 烏昏
	Bangkok (Meixian)	斷暗邊
Jin	Taiyuan	擦黑, 黑將來
Northern Min	Jian'ou	暗邊仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	半晡
	Matsu	半晡
Southern Min	Xiamen	日欲暗, 倚暗, 倚暗仔, 欲暗仔
	Quanzhou	日欲暗, 欲暗仔
	Zhangzhou	日欲暗, 倚暗, 倚暗仔, 欲暗仔, 倚欲暗仔
	Taipei	欲暗仔, 暗頭仔 GT
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	尾暗仔, 欲暗仔
	Kaohsiung	欲暗仔
	Yilan	欲暗仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	日欲暗, 欲暗仔
	Taichung	日頭欲落山, 黃昏 literary
	Tainan	尾暗仔, 欲暗仔
	Hsinchu	欲暗矣, 黃昏
	Kinmen	欲暗矣, 日較晚
	Penghu (Magong)	日欲暗
	Penang (Hokkien)	暗頭, 日頭落山
	Manila (Hokkien)	暗頭
	Chaozhou	暝昏
	Shantou	暝昏, 暝暗頭, 隨暗
	Shantou (Chenghai)	暝昏, 暝暗, 暝暗頭
	Jieyang	暝暗晡, 暝昏晡
	Lufeng	暗昏跤
	Haifeng	暗昏跤
	Bangkok (Teochew)	日暗, 暗頭
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	暝昏
	Singapore (Teochew)	暝昏
	Batam (Teochew)	暝昏
Waxiang	Guzhang (Gaofeng)	煞黑
Wu	Shanghai	齊夜快, 夜快, 夜快同, 傍晚辰光, 黃昏頭
	Suzhou	夜快, 夜快點, 垂夜快
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	夜快邊, 夜快
	Wenzhou	黃昏邊
Xiang	Changsha	斷黑, 煞黑, 晚邊子
	Shuangfeng	斷黑, 挨黑, 達夜
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

Dialectal synonyms of 傍晚 (“nightfall; dusk; evening”) [map]

Derived terms

• 日暮途窮／日暮途穷 (rìmùtúqióng)

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
日	暮
ひ Grade: 1	く(れ) > ぐ(れ) Grade: 6
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 日暮 – see the following entry.

【日暮ひぐれ】 [noun] sunset, sundown, dusk, evening, nightfall

(This term, 日暮, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
日	暮
ひ Grade: 1	く(らし) > ぐ(らし) Grade: 6
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 日暮 – see the following entry.

【日暮ひぐらし】 [noun] from morning to evening, all day Alternative spellings 日暮し, ひくらし

(This term, 日暮, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)