Japanese symbol for “implicit”
暗黙
あんもく
Romaji: anmoku
tacit; unspoken; implicit
In Japanese, implicit is 暗黙, read あんもく (anmoku).
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Meanings
- adj-no, n tacit; unspoken; implicit
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “implicit”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 言外 | げんがい gengai | unexpressed; unspoken; implied |
| 暗黙的 | あんもくてき anmokuteki | implicit |
| 陰的 | いんてき inteki | implicit |
| 黙示的 | もくしてき mokushiteki | implied; implicit |
| 暗示的 | あんじてき anjiteki | suggestive; allusive; evocative |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暗殺 | あんさつ ansatsu | assassination |
| 真っ暗 | まっくら makkura | pitch-dark; pitch-black; completely dark |
| 暗号 | あんごう angou | code; password; cipher |
| 暗い | くらい kurai | dark; gloomy; murky |
| 暗黒 | あんこく ankoku | darkness |
| 沈黙 | ちんもく chinmoku | silence; being silent; quiet |
| 黙る | だまる damaru | to be silent; to say nothing |
| 黙認 | もくにん mokunin | tacit approval; tacit permission; connivance |
See also: Chinese symbol for “implicit”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.