Word for the sun appearing after rain at dusk?

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It has been raining for the whole day. At dusk, the rain stops and the sun comes out of the cloud. The sky is painted with a soft color of a mixture of red and orange which looks very beautiful. With the sweet and fresh air, you feel extremely comfortable both physically and mentally.
There is a Chinese word '晚晴' for this scene, and I used it to name my daughter. So if an English name should be given to her, is there a word with the same meaning or some relation with the Chinese word in some aspect, which is also suitable for a name or doesn't sound very strange at least?
Update
It seems that there is no such word in English. Then it will also be appreciated if there is a word whose end pronunciation is the same as ring or sing - that's how the second character of the Chinese name sound like, and has some good meaning and could be used as a nickname!
Update Again: Reply to @Meghan
Thanks for your reply! I realized from this thread that it not so easy to choose an English name with the ideas I used choosing her Chinese name. So we just use 'Ella' as her English name selected by my wife. But after checking the exact meaning of it when I trying to write this reply to you, I found it's the very right one as I expected before, especially of this sentence "the Good, is all she vows to become and to do." :)

HemiPoweredDrone · Accepted Answer

How great that there's a woman's name describing all of that in Chinese.

There's no specific name like that in English. The time of day you are describing is, of course, evening, so maybe the name Eve is related to the concept you want. Eve has meaning in Judaism and Christianity; Eve (picture possibly NSFW) was the first woman.

gattsbr · Answer

English doesn't have a word for it -- as far as I know.

A common phrase for it however is: The calm after the storm

The reason for the soft color of red and orange however, has to do with the aforementioned rain and time of day.

National Geographic calls it "Red Sky at Night" -- (a light-read about the science of this topic.)

Peter Point · Answer

I think the OP asks a delightful question and I have been searching for an English word without success. Somehow naming someone "Sunset", "Dusk" or "Twilight" doesn't quite have the ring of Dawn, a common girl's name that reflects the start of the day and a breaking dawn. An then there's "Sundowner", a cooling soft or light alcoholic drink imbibed at that lovely time of the day when the sun goes down and you can relax with a drink and good conversation. No, Sundowner as a girl's name will not do her justice.

Answered by Peter Point on January 26, 2021

Logophile · Answer

Beautiful that Chinese has a word for that.

Gloaming is an English word that means twilight or dusk.

Here is what the ODO says:

literary 
  
  Twilight; dusk.
  
  ‘hundreds of lights are already shimmering in the gloaming’

It sort of rhymes with your daughter's name in Chinese and has a positive connotation (most people who know the word would think of something like this, this or this when they hear it), but it is not common as a name for girls.  Perhaps you can start a trend that would make it common :).

Meghan · Answer

it's sunshine after the rain which means easiness after difficulties. which is probably a definition for freedom. And according to a google search The top names meaning free are Charles and Francis and their many variations, including Charlotte, Charlie, Francesca and Frankie. I realize you asked this 4 years ago though. What did you name her?

Answered by Meghan on January 26, 2021

Word for the sun appearing after rain at dusk?

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