暗

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暗 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日卜廿日 (AYTA), four-corner 6006₁, composition ⿰日音)

1. dark
2. obscure
3. in secret, covert

• 𭋎, 𢶹, 𰖷

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 498, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14065
• Dae Jaweon: page 866, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1526, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6697

Historical forms of the character 暗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯːms) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 音 (OC *qrɯm).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Compare 陰”)

暗

1. dark (without light); dim

   Antonym: 明 (míng)

   天色暗了  ―  tiānsè àn le  ―  The sky darkened.

   屋子裡很暗。／屋子里很暗。  ―  Wūzi lǐ hěn àn.  ―  It is very dark in the room.

2. dull; not bright

   暗紅／暗红  ―  àn hóng  ―  dull red

3. secret; covert

   暗號／暗号  ―  ànhào  ―  secret signal

4. confused; ignorant

   兼聽則明，偏信則暗 [MSC, trad.]
   兼听则明，偏信则暗 [MSC, simp.]

   jiāntīng zé míng, piānxìn zé àn

   Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened, heed only one side and you will be benighted.

5. (Southern Min) late
6. (Cantonese) to lull

   媽媽唱歌暗BB瞓。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   妈妈唱歌暗BB𰥛。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   maa^1-4 maa¹ coeng³ go¹ am³ bi⁴ bi¹ fan³.

   The mother sings to lull the baby to sleep.

• “暗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01812

Shinjitai	暗
Kyūjitai [1][2]	暗󠄁 暗+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	暗󠄃 暗+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. darkness

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←おむ (omu, historical)}
• Kan-on: あん (an, Jōyō)^{←あむ (amu, historical)}
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 暗い, Jōyō)^{←くらし (kurasi, 暗し, historical)}、くらむ (kuramu, 暗む)、くれる (kureru, 暗れる)、そらんずる (soranzuru, 暗ずる)^{←そらんず (soranzu, 暗ず, historical)}、ひそかに (hisokani, 暗かに)、やみ (yami, 暗)

• 闇 (Non-Tōyō character in place of which this character is written)
• 暗闇(くらやみ) (kurayami)

From Middle Chinese 暗 (MC 'omH).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

• (Tokyo) あん (Atamadaka – )^[3]
• IPA^(key):

暗(あん) • (an) 

1. darkness

暗(あん) • (an) 

1. dark
2. blackish
3. foolish
4. secret; covert
5. memorize; recite from memory

暗 (eumhun 어두울 암 (eoduul am))

1. hanja form^? of 암 (“darkness”)

• 암살 (暗殺, amsal, “assassination”)
• 암호 (暗號, amho, “password; code”)
• 암흑 (暗黑, amheuk, “dark (a complete or partial absence of light)”)

暗: Hán Nôm readings: ám

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