夕暮れ

ゆうぐれ · yuugure · JLPT N1 · noun

twilight

🌇 夕 (evening) + 暮れ (getting dark): the time when daylight fades into dusk

暮れる means to grow dark or come to an end. Yuugure is the stretch when daylight fades, and its 'gure' part is that same verb stem, so the word literally means evening-getting-dark.

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