mou6暮
Jyutpingmou6
Yalemouh
Definition
Dusk, evening, or sunset.
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How it's used
This character is primarily a literary morpheme and rarely appears as a standalone word in spoken Cantonese. It is mostly encountered in formal idioms or poetic descriptions of time. For everyday conversation, native speakers prefer using 挨晚 or 傍晚 to describe the time of day.
Examples
The evening scenery is beautiful, let's go for a walk by the seaside.
Are you planning to return home only at dusk?
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Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use this as a direct substitute for evening in casual speech, which sounds overly formal or archaic. It is better to treat this as a written-only character unless you are intentionally using a literary tone.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
