夕暮れ (ゆうぐれ, yuugure) Japanese meaning: evening | Kotomoraしい
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The evening sky is beautiful.
He likes taking a walk at dusk.
Usage patterns
夕暮れが近づくfor dusk to approach
Dusk was approaching, and the sky began to turn red.
夕暮れを迎えるto greet dusk / for dusk to arrive
The two of them greeted a quiet dusk.
〈場所〉が夕暮れに染まるfor a place to be bathed in the colors of dusk
The whole town was bathed in the colors of dusk.
夕暮れの〈物〉the ~ of dusk (e.g. sky, street)
The sky at dusk was beautiful.
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N2
夕焼け specifically describes the red glow in the sky, while 夕暮れ more broadly means the dusk period as the day fades into evening.
夕暮れ is the everyday word for dusk used in ordinary speech, whereas トワイライト is often reserved for titles, branding, or descriptive writing.
夕暮れ evokes the visual scene of dusk falling, whereas 夕刻 is a plain, formal reference to the evening hour.
