Chinese symbol for “dark”
黑暗
hēi àn
dark; darkly; darkness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dark is 黑暗 (hēi àn), defined as: dark; darkly; darkness.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “dark”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暗 | àn | dark; to turn dark |
| 暗黑 | àn hēi | dark; dim |
| 深色 | shēn sè | dark; dark colored |
| 冥 | míng | dark; deep |
| 惨淡 (慘淡) | cǎn dàn | dark; gloomy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 黑暗.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黑人 | hēi rén | black person; an illegal |
| 黑色 | hēi sè | black |
| 黑白 | hēi bái | black and white; right and wrong |
| 黑客 | hēi kè | (computing) (loanword) hacker |
| 黑帮 (黑幫) | hēi bāng | bunch of gangsters; criminal gang |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dark”.
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.