Definition

1. Noun:
   • Dusk, nightfall: The time of day immediately following sunset, when daylight is fading and night is beginning. It describes the brief transitional period between day and night.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trời vừa chập tối. (It is just nightfall.)
  • Chúng tôi về nhà lúc chập tối. (We returned home at dusk.)
  • Khu rừng trở nên yên tĩnh lạ thường vào lúc chập tối. (The forest becomes unusually quiet at dusk.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "chập tối" is often used to set a scene or indicate a specific, somewhat melancholic or quiet time of day in narratives and descriptions.

Variants and Related Words

• Hoàng hôn (n): sunset, twilight. This often refers more specifically to the visual phenomenon of the sunset sky.
• Tối (n): night, evening. A more general term for the night time.
• Nhá nhem tối (n): the very first moments of dusk, when it is just beginning to get dark.

Synonyms

• Twilight: The soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon.
• Gloaming: A literary term for twilight or dusk.
• Nightfall: The onset of night; the beginning of darkness.

Related Phrases

• Giờ chập tối: The dusk hour.
  • Giờ chập tối là lúc nhiều loài côn trùng bắt đầu hoạt động. (The dusk hour is when many insect species become active.)

1. Dusk, nightfall
   • từ mờ sáng đến chập tối
     from early dawn to dusk
   • trời vừa chập tối
     it is nightfall