Illustration: Along a quiet residential lane, the sun sits just above distant rooftops and casts long shadows from utility poles and bicycles. Daylight remains, but a few kitchen windows have begun to glow and a streetlamp has just come on.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

夕ゆう方がた

yuugata

early evening, dusk

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは夕方ゆうがたにテレビを見みる。

    I watch television in the evening.

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  2. 夕方ゆうがたの五時ごじです。

    It’s five in the evening.

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  3. 夕方ゆうがたが近ちかづいてきた。

    Evening is drawing on.

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Kanji in 夕方

  • 夕eveningOnセキKunゆう
  • 方direction; personOnホウKunかた

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