Illustration: In a Japanese home on a cold December afternoon, a family is finishing its annual deep cleaning. One adult stands on a stable step stool wiping the top of a cupboard while another carries two steaming bowls of soba toward the low table.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

暮くれ

kure

end of the year

Often used as 年の暮れ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 暮くれに四女よんじょを病気びょうきにより亡なくす。

    He lost his fourth daughter to illness at the end of the year.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 毎年まいとしお盆ぼんと暮くれの興行こうぎょうは日本人にっぽんじんの風物詩ふうぶつし、国民的映画こくみんてきえいがとまで言いわれた。

    It was said that the movies, released in the summer holidays and at the year’s end, were a Japanese seasonal tradition and a national institution.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 年としの暮くれ、源氏げんじは紫むらさきの上うえとともに、女性じょせいらに贈おくる正月しょうがつの晴はれ着選ぎえらびをした。

    At the end of the year, Genji and Murasaki no Ue chose New Year’s clothes to give to the women.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 暮

  • 暮evening; twilightOnボKunくれる・くらす

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