HSK 6 · Time

黄昏 huánghūn “dusk” in Chinese

Traditional 黃昏

What 黄昏 means

  1. dusk
  2. twilight
  3. evening
  4. nightfall

How to say 黄昏

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale黄huáng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale昏hūn1st tone, high and level

黄昏 in a sentence

  1. 她说她黄昏之前必须回来。

    Tā shuō tā huánghūn zhīqián bìxū huílai.

    She said she had to be back before dusk.

    Sentence #1517477 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 黄昏时分，天空染上了紫色的光。

    Huánghūn shífēn, tiānkōng rǎnshàng le zǐsè de guāng.

    At dusk, the sky was tinged with purple light.

    Sentence #13557588 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 黄昏 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 黄 (huáng) drawn as one shape
黄huángyellow

黄 is a single shape of 11 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 昏 (hūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
昏hūnmuddle-headed
  • 氏clan · shì
  • 日sun · rì

How to write 黄昏

黄 11 strokes · 昏 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

黄昏 (huánghūn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 黄昏 (huánghūn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 黄昏

Words with 黄

黄河huánghé · Yellow River黄色huángsè · yellow黄金huángjīn · gold

Words with 昏

昏迷hūnmí · to fall unconscious

More words: Time & Sequence

丁dīng · fourth (in a series)定期dìngqī · regular端午节Duānwǔjié · Dragon Boat Festival顿时dùnshí · immediately间隔jiàngé · interval季度jìdù · quarter (of a year)截至jiézhì · up to截止jiézhǐ · to end

FAQs

黄昏 (huánghūn) means “dusk” or “twilight”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huánghūn: huáng with a 2nd tone, then hūn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 黄昏 is written 黃昏. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huanghun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 黄昏 from the suggestions. Typing huanghun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
黄昏 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.