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闇
闇
Translingual
Han character
闇 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓卜廿日 (ANYTA), four-corner 77601, composition ⿵門音)
References
- KangXi: page 1338, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41421
- Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 34
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4309, character 7
- Unihan data for U+95C7
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
闇 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | 𬮴 nonstandard simplified | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 闇
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|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 諳 | *qɯːm |
| 腤 | *qɯːm |
| 嬜 | *qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm |
| 喑 | *qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms |
| 揞 | *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms |
| 隌 | *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm |
| 罯 | *qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb |
| 暗 | *qɯːms |
| 闇 | *qɯːms |
| 黯 | *qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ |
| 歆 | *qʰrɯm |
| 愔 | *qɯm |
| 韾 | *qɯm |
| 音 | *qrɯm |
| 瘖 | *qrɯm |
| 窨 | *qrɯms |
| 湆 | *kʰrɯb |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯːms) : semantic 門 + phonetic 音 (OC *qrɯm).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄢ
- Wade-Giles: an1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
- IPA (key): /ˀa̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: am3, am2, am1
- Yale: am, ám, ām
- Cantonese Pinyin: am3, am2, am1
- IPA (key): /ɐm³³/, /ɐm³⁵/, /ɐm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: am
- Tâi-lô: am
- Phofsit Daibuun: afm
- IPA (Xiamen): /am⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /am³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /am⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /am⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /am⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 闇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏紺切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔʌmH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔəmH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔɒmH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔəmH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔᴀmH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɒmH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔămH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
àn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 闇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15214 |
| Phonetic component |
音 |
| Rime group |
侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
暗 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qɯːms/ |
Definitions
闇
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Compounds
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References
Japanese
Kanji
闇
Readings
- Goon: おん (on), (historical) おむ (omu)
- Kan’on: あん (an), (historical) あむ (amu)
- Kun: やみ (yami), くらい (闇い, kurai) (non-Jōyō reading)
Compounds
Compounds
Usage notes
Added to the jōyō kanji list on 30 November 2010; previously classified as jinmeiyō kanji.
See also
- 暗 (Tōyō character written in place of this character)
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 闇 |
|
やみ Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
From Old Japanese. Ultimate roots uncertain. May be cognate with 病む (yamu, “to be ill”), 止む (yamu, “to stop, to quit”), 黄泉 (yomi, “land of the dead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 闇 |
|
あん Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 闇 (ʔəm, “dark”).
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
References
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
闇 • (am) (hangeul 암, revised am, McCune-Reischauer am, Yale am)
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Vietnamese
Han character
闇 (ám)
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