昧 — Chinese character
昧
mèi
dark, hidden, obscure
- Pinyin
- mèi
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 日 未
- Formation
- pictophonetic — sun; meaning component 日; sound component 未
- Japanese
- 昧 as a kanji
Common words with 昧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暧昧 (曖昧) | ài mèi | vague; ambiguous |
| 愚昧 | yú mèi | ignorant; uneducated; ignorance |
| 蒙昧 | méng mèi | uncultured; uncivilized |
| 暧昧关系 (曖昧關係) | ài mèi guān xì | shady relationship; affair |
| 三昧 | sān mèi | Samadhi (Buddhist term) |
| 冒昧 | mào mèi | bold; presumptuous |
| 愚昧无知 (愚昧無知) | yú mèi wú zhī | stupid and ignorant (idiom) |
| 素昧平生 | sù mèi píng shēng | (idiom) to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted |
| 拾金不昧 | shí jīn bù mèi | to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner |
| 昧心 | mèi xīn | against one's conscience |
| 暗昧 | àn mèi | obscure; remaining unenlightened |
| 昧良心 | mèi liáng xīn | it goes against one's conscience |
English words written with 昧
昧 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Zhuangzi 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 14
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 41
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi The Empire
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.