傍晚時分,天空泛著紫色的光。

The sky illumined in purple in the evening.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 傍晚 bàngwǎn
  1. in the evening
  2. when night falls
  3. towards evening
  4. at night fall
  5. at dusk
2 時分 shífēn
  1. time
  2. period during the day
  3. one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
3 天空 tiānkōng sky
=4 fàn variant of fàn
=4 fàn variant of fàn
=4 fàn
  1. (bound form) general
  2. non-specific
  3. extensive
  4. pan-
  5. to flood
  6. (literary) to float about
  7. to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
=5 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=5 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=5 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=5 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=5 zhù
  1. to make known
  2. to show
  3. to prove
  4. to write
  5. book
  6. outstanding
6 紫色
  1. purple
  2. violet (color)
=7 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=8 guāng
  1. bright; shiny
  2. only; merely
  3. used up; finished
  4. to leave (a part of the body) uncovered

classifier:

=8 guàng
  1. (historical dictionaries only) to color
  2. to color