First opened Monday, April 30, 2012
夕暮れ
ゆうぐれ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
evening, (evening) twilight
Yūgure is 夕 (yū, “evening”) plus 暮れ (kure, “dusk, nightfall”), with kure voiced to gure by rendaku.
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In a sentence
夕暮れが谷間に迫っていた。
Evening was closing in on the valley.
或る夕暮私はこの丘の上に立ったことがある。
There was a time, one evening, when I stood on top of that hill.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “夕(ゆう) (yū, “evening”) + 暮(く)れ (kure, “dusk, nightfall”).”
- “The kure changes to gure as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 夕暮れ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).