薄暮

Chinese

		to approach; to go near	evening; dusk; sunset evening; dusk; sunset; (of time) late; closing
trad. (薄暮)		薄	暮
simp. #(薄暮)		薄	暮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bómù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ ㄇㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bok⁶ mou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bómù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ ㄇㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bómù
    • Wade–Giles: po²-mu⁴
    • Yale: bwó-mù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bormuh
    • Palladius: бому (bomu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵ mu⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
    • Jyutping: bok⁶ mou⁶
    • Yale: bohk mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bok⁹ mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bog⁶ mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚² mou̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: bak muH

Rime
Character	薄	暮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	傍各切	莫故切
Baxter	bak	muH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bwɑk̚/	/muoH/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷɑk̚/	/muoH/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑk̚/	/moH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwak̚/	/mɔH/
Li Rong	/buɑk̚/	/moH/
Wang Li	/buɑk̚/	/muH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱwɑk̚/	/muoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó	mù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bok6	mou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*baːɡ  maːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bó
Middle Chinese	‹ bak ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁak/
English	thin
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	薄	暮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3487	9247
Phonetic component	甫	莫
Rime group	鐸	暮
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	泊	暮
Old Chinese	/*baːɡ/	/*maːɡs/

Noun

薄暮

1. (literary) dusk; twilight

Synonyms

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• 傍晚 (bàngwǎn)
• 傍黑 (bànghēi) (regional)
• 入暮 (rùmù)
• 向晚 (xiàngwǎn) (literary)
• 向暮 (xiàngmù) (literary)
• 夜快 (Wu)
• 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)
• 遲暮 / 迟暮 (chímù) (literary)
• 黃昏 / 黄昏 (huánghūn)

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

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		暮, 夕, 黃昏, 薄暮, 向晚, 日暮, 昧, 曫
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
	Pizhou	下晚兒
	Lianyungang (Ganyu)	下傍晚兒, 拐磨時
	Donghai	下傍晚
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	擦黑, 麻麻黑, 打麻子眼兒
	Wuhan	煞黑, 挨黑
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	挨晚
	Yangzhou	下晚, 下晚時候
	Baoying	下晚
	Taizhou	傍晚兒
	Zhenjiang	下晚
	Lianyungang	下傍晚
	Huai'an (Huaiyin)	下傍晚
	Xuyi	下傍晚, 傍晚
	Nantong	下晚兒, 唉暗兒
	Rugao	下晚兒
	Yancheng	下晚
	Funing	晚半天
	Sihong	挨傍晚, 擦黑
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
	Longyan	討暗邊仔
	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
	Wuxi	夜快
	Changshu	夜快
	Nantong (Haimen)	夜快
	Changzhou	夜快點
	Danyang	斷暗
	Nanjing (Gaochun)	夜頭希
	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)