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Chinese symbol for “blackout”

暗转
àn zhuǎn
Traditional: 暗轉
(theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene); (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly

The closest CC-CEDICT match for blackout is 暗转 (àn zhuǎn), defined as: (theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene); (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly.

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Characters and stroke order

暗 àn
dark, gloomy; obscure; secret, covert
radical 72 ⽇ · 13 strokes
转 zhuǎn
to move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle; to forward mail
radical 159 ⾞ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 暗转.

WordPinyinMeaning
黑暗hēi àndark; darkly
暗示àn shìto hint; to suggest; hint; suggestion
暗杀 (暗殺)àn shāto assassinate
暗中àn zhōngin the dark; in secret
阴暗 (陰暗)yīn àndim; dark
暗号 (暗號)àn hàosecret signal; password; countersign
转移 (轉移)zhuǎn yíto shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
转变 (轉變)zhuǎn biànto change; to transform

See also: Japanese symbol for “blackout”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.