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暗

暗

See also: 晻 and 闇

Translingual

Han character

暗 (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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 暗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 暗
Small seal script
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 暗
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
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 暗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 àn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔomH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qˤum-s/
English dark

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 暗
Reading # 1/1
No. 15213
Phonetic
component		 音
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 暗
Old
Chinese		 /*qɯːms/

Adjective

暗

  1. dark (without light)
    Antonyms: 光 (guāng)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

暗

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. darkness

Readings

Compounds

See also

  • 闇 (Non-Tōyō character in place of which this character is written)

Korean

Hanja

暗 • ‎(am) (hangeul 암, revised am, McCune-Reischauer am, Yale am)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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