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
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 暗转.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黑暗 | hēi àn | dark; darkly |
| 暗示 | àn shì | to hint; to suggest; hint; suggestion |
| 暗杀 (暗殺) | àn shā | to assassinate |
| 暗中 | àn zhōng | in the dark; in secret |
| 阴暗 (陰暗) | yīn àn | dim; dark |
| 暗号 (暗號) | àn hào | secret signal; password; countersign |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to 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.
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