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傍晚

bàng wǎn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

傍晚 (bàng wǎn) means "evening, dusk". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 傍晚 means

1. in the evening
2. when night falls
3. towards evening
4. at night fall
5. at dusk

The characters in 傍晚

• 傍bàngnear; approaching; to depend on
• 晚wǎnevening; night; late

Example sentences

• 他在傍晚写诗。
  He writes poems in the early-evening hours.
• 今天傍晚做些事！
  Let's do something later this evening!
• 傍晚我喜欢沿着湖边散步。
  Bàngwǎn wǒ xǐhuan yánzhe húbiān sànbù.
  At nightfall I like following the tradition of taking a walk along the lakeside.
• 这艘船会在傍晚出发去英国。
  The boat is to leave for England this evening.
• 每个傍晚我都会喂我的狗狗们。
  Měi gè bàngwǎn wǒ dōu huì wèi wǒ de gǒu gǒu men.
  I've always fed my dogs in the early evening.
• 傍晚时分，天空泛着紫色的光。
  The sky illumined in purple in the evening.

Where 傍晚 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time & Temporal Expressions (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bàng wǎn correctly.
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