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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 [Pinyin]

   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. [Jyutping]

   The mother sings to lull the baby to sleep.

• “暗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 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 [áꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [ã̠ɴ]

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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