傍晚

Chinese

		near; nestle; near (approaching)	evening; night; late
simp. and trad. (傍晚)		傍	晚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàngwǎn, bāngwǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄤˋ ㄨㄢˇ, ㄅㄤ ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bong⁶ maan⁵ / pong⁴ maan⁵

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pōng-boán

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pang⁵ mung²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶baon-we

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàngwǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàngwǎn
    • Wade–Giles: pang⁴-wan³
    • Yale: bàng-wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banqwoan
    • Palladius: банвань (banvanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹ wän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàngwǎnr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ ㄨㄢˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàngwǎnr
    • Wade–Giles: pang⁴-wan³-ʼrh
    • Yale: bàng-wǎnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banqwoal
    • Palladius: банваньр (banvanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹ wɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāngwǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤ ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bangwǎn
    • Wade–Giles: pang¹-wan³
    • Yale: bāng-wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bangwoan
    • Palladius: банвань (banvanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵⁵ wän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bong⁶ maan⁵ / pong⁴ maan⁵
    • Yale: bohng máahn / pòhng máahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bong⁶ maan⁵ / pong⁴ maan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: bong⁶ man⁵ / pong⁴ man⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːŋ²² maːn¹³/, /pʰɔːŋ²¹ maːn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pōng-boán
    • Tâi-lô: pōng-buán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poxngboarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pɔŋ²²⁻²¹ buan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² buan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔŋ²²⁻²¹ buan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ buan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔŋ³³⁻²¹ buan⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pang⁵ mung²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phâng múng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ muŋ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶baon-we
    • MiniDict: baon^去 we
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³baan-hhue
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bɑ̃²² ɦue⁴⁴/

Noun

傍晚

1. nightfall; toward evening; dusk

   夏天的傍晚是一位慈祥的老奶奶。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Xiàtiān de bàngwǎn shì yīwèi cíxiáng de lǎonǎinǎi. [Pinyin]

   A summer evening is a kindly old grandmother.

   傍晚，燕雀的狂噪穿過暮藹在天空迴繞。 [MSC, trad.]
   傍晚，燕雀的狂噪穿过暮蔼在天空回绕。 [MSC, simp.]

   Bàngwǎn, yànquè de kuáng zào chuānguò mù ǎi zài tiānkōng huí rào. [Pinyin]

   In the evening, the wild noise of swallows echoed through the amiable twilight sky.

Synonyms

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• 傍黑 (bànghēi) (regional)
• 入暮 (rùmù)
• 向晚 (xiàngwǎn) (literary)
• 向暮 (xiàngmù) (literary)
• 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)
• 薄暮 (bómù) (literary)
• 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
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
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	擦黑, 麻麻黑, 打麻子眼兒
	Wuhan	煞黑, 挨黑
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	下晚, 下晚時候
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
	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
	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)

Antonyms

• 清晨 (qīngchén)