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)⁺
    • 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/
Bernard 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

• 傍晚 (bàngwǎn)
• 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)
• 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
Mandarin	Beijing	擦黑兒, 傍晚兒
	Taiwan	傍晚
	Harbin	傍黑兒, 擦黑兒
	Yantai (Muping)	傍傍黑兒
	Jinan	傍黑天兒, 傍黑兒天
	Luoyang	黑些兒
	Xi'an	擦黑, 後晌黑
	Xining	擦黑兒
	Wuhan	煞黑, 挨黑
	Chengdu	擦黑, 麻麻黑, 打麻子眼兒
	Xuzhou	捱黑兒, 捱傍黑兒, 下傍晚兒, 捱傍晚兒
	Yangzhou	下晚, 下晚時候
	Singapore	傍晚
Cantonese	Guangzhou	挨晚, 𨂾光黑
	Hong Kong	挨晚, 黃昏
	Taishan	埋黑
	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)