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暮 means 'get dark'

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Strokes : 14    Frequency: 665   JLPT: N3    Usefulness: 3    Study set: 3-16    Grade: 6   Intermediate lesson: 29    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 29 words   Used in 88 words   Used in 134 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
On
   ボ
Kun
   くれる to get dark   くらす to make a living
Additional readings
Name    ぐらし   ぐれ   ぽ
Notes
A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 暮 - click the badge to download
You might expect a kanji meaning 'to live' to be exuberant. Instead, 暮 captures the gloomy sense of 'We're born with one foot in the grave." Still, you can use this very flexible kanji to talk about all these things: scraping by on a small income, what one does for a living, year-end gifts, twilight, living alone, being lost in thought, and spending all one's time doing something.
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Components
⿱  莫 must not  日 sun; day  
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 暮 is used 8 times, read 2 ways (with 1 variation).
Across all words in Japanese, 暮 is used 71 times, read 2 ways (with 1 variation).
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ボ : 21 words FIND ALL
せ い ぼ 0
noun
1. year-end gift  (see also: お歳暮)
2. end of the year; year end
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くれる : 37 words FIND ALL
く ら し 0
Most common form: 暮し
noun, noun (suffix)
life; living; livelihood; life circumstances  (usu. ぐらし as a suffix)
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くれる (read as ぐ) : 13 words FIND ALL
ひ と り ぐ ら し 4
noun
a single life; a solitary life; living alone
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An additional 17 less common words include 暮 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
Henshall: 982 (originally: 1789)  Joy o' Kanji : 1789  Key to Kanji: 958 

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暮
ボ   くれる to get dark   くらす to make a living   
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
莫
バク   ボ   マク   モ    must not   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
艹
grass   
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