暮 mù dusk
dusk; evening; sunset
How to remember 暮: 莫 cannot + 日 sun = dusk. The kids cannot stop playing even when the sun sinks, and play on through dusk, until Mum calls them in.
Component breakdown
暮 = 莫 cannot + 日 sun
- 莫 cannot
- 日 sun
The kids cannot stop playing even when the sun sinks, and play on through dusk, until Mum calls them in.
How it is used
- Dusk, and by extension the late/waning stage - 暮色 (mùsè) twilight, 暮年 (mùnián) one's declining years.
- 朝三暮四 (zhāosān-mùsì), three in the morning, four at night, means fickle/inconstant. Literary; pairs against 朝 (zhāo, morning).