闇

See also 暗

Translingual

Etymology

門 + 音.

Han character

闇 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓卜廿日 (ANYTA), four-corner 7760₁)

1. close, shut
2. dark, dismal

References

• KangXi: page 1338, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41421
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4309, character 7
• Unihan data for U+95C7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

闇 (Yale am3)

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Japanese

Etymology

Added to jōyō kanji list 30 November 2010; previously classified as jinmeiyō kanji.

Kanji

闇 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: あん (an), おん (on)
• Kun: やみ (yami), くらい (kurai), とじる (tojiru)

Compounds

• 闇夜

See also

• 暗 (Tōyō character written in place of this character)

Noun

闇 (hiragana やみ, romaji yami)

1. the dark; darkness

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Korean

Hanja

闇 (hangeul 암, revised am, McCune-Reischauer am, Yale am)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

闇 (pinyin àn (an4), Wade-Giles an⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闇 (ám)