闇

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See also: 暗 and 𬮴
闇 U+95C7, 闇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95C7
← 闆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 闈 →

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. close, shut
  2. dark, dismal

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 闇
simp. 𬮴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
諳 *qɯːm
腤 *qɯːm
嬜 *qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑 *qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞 *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌 *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯 *qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗 *qɯːms
闇 *qɯːms
黯 *qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆 *qʰrɯm
愔 *qɯm
韾 *qɯm
音 *qrɯm
瘖 *qrɯm
窨 *qrɯms
湆 *kʰrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯːms) : semantic 門 + phonetic 音 (OC *qrɯm).

Pronunciation 1

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 闇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏紺切
Baxter 'omH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔʌmH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔəmH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔɒmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəmH/
Li
Rong 		/ʔᴀmH/
Wang
Li 		/ɒmH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔămH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		àn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		am3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 闇
Reading # 1/1
No. 15214
Phonetic
component 		音
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		暗
Old
Chinese 		/*qɯːms/

Definitions

闇

  1. to close the door
  2. night; dusk; eclipse
  3. Alternative form of 暗 (àn, “dark; secret; ignorant”)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

闇

  1. room for mourning the death of a ruler
  2. Alternative form of 諳／谙 (ān, “to fully understand”)

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

闇

  1. Alternative form of 奄 (“suddenly”)

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 闇
Kyūjitai
闇󠄂
闇+󠄂?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
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Kanji

闇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dark, darkness

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Usage notes

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

See also

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

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
闇
やみ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Ultimate roots uncertain. May be cognate with 病む (yamu, “to be ill”), 止む (yamu, “to stop, to quit”), 黄泉 (yomi, “land of the dead”).

Reconstructed as deriving ultimately from Proto-Japonic *yamui.

Pronunciation

Noun

闇(やみ) • (yami) 

  1. the dark, darkness

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
闇
あん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 闇 (MC 'omH, “dark”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

闇(あん) • (an) 

  1. darkness, the dark
  2. a dark place
  3. (Buddhism) darkness, as a metaphor for worldly desires

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2224 (paper), page 1164 (digital)
  2. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1293 (paper), page 659 (digital)
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

闇 • (am) (hangeul 암, revised am, McCune–Reischauer am, Yale am)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闇: Hán Nôm readings: ám

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