暗 — kanji meaning “darkness”
暗
darkness, disappear, shade, informal, grow dark, be blinded
- Meanings
- darkness, disappear, shade, informal, grow dark, be blinded
- On'yomi
- アン (an)
- Kun'yomi
- くら.い、くら.む、くれ.る
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- 3
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #1040 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 72
- Chinese reading
- àn — Chinese character page
Words with 暗
| 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 |
| 暗黙 | あんもく anmoku | tacit; unspoken; implicit |
| 暗黒 | あんこく ankoku | darkness |
| 明暗 | めいあん meian | light and darkness; light and shade |
| 暗記 | あんき anki | memorization; memorisation; learning by heart |
| 暗示 | あんじ anji | hint; suggestion; clue |
| 薄暗い | うすぐらい usugurai | dim; gloomy |
| 暗に | あんに anni | implicitly; indirectly; tacitly |
| 暗礁 | あんしょう anshou | reef; sunken rock |
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