Illustration: Along a Japanese residential lane, a child finishes gathering badminton shuttlecocks while a parent waits beside two bicycles. The sun has just slipped behind the low rooftops, leaving a narrow glow along the horizon while the lane itself grows dim.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

夕ゆう暮ぐれ

yuugure

dusk, twilight

Example sentences

その校舎こうしゃは夕暮ゆうぐれの中なかにきらきらと輝かがやいていた。
The school building was a blaze of light in the evening darkness.
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夕暮ゆうぐれが谷間たにまに迫せまっていた。
Evening was closing in on the valley.
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夕暮ゆうぐれ時どきになるとこの辺あたりに人々ひとびとが集あつまって来くる。
People gather around here when it gets dark.
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Kanji in 夕暮

夕eveningOnセキKunゆう
暮evening; twilightOnボKunくれる・くらす

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