Usage patterns 日にち 没ぼつ までに 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something by sunset
We have to get down the mountain by sunset.
日にち 没ぼつ を 迎むか える for sunset to arrive
The boat returned to port before sunset arrived.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 の 日にち 没ぼつ 時じ 刻こく the sunset time at a given place
The sunset time in Tokyo changes with the season.
Related words 日の入り is the everyday, descriptive word for sunset, while 日没 sounds more concise and formal, as in weather reports or timetables.
日暮れ refers more broadly to dusk or nightfall around the time daylight ends, whereas 日没 refers precisely to the moment the sun sets below the horizon.
日没 is the standard word for sunset, while 入り appears in compounds like 日の入り to describe the same event.
Word family before sunset
after sunset; after dark
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 日 , 'sun; day,' and 没 , 'to sink; disappear,' literally describing the sun sinking from view.
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