闇

See also: 暗 and 𬮴
闇 U+95C7, 闇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95C7
← 闆
[U+95C6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 闈 →
[U+95C8]

Translingual

Han character

闇 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓卜廿日 (ANYTA), four-corner 77601, composition ⿵門音)

  1. close, shut
  2. dark, dismal

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

simp. and trad.
 闇
alt. forms 𬮴 nonstandard simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
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

  • 嚚闇
  • 庸闇
  • 悠闇
  • 洄闇
  • 闇亂／闇乱
  • 闇劣
  • 闇弱 (ànruò)
  • 闇淺／闇浅
  • 闇然
  • 闇莫
  • 闇誦／闇诵
  • 闇跳
  • 黮闇

References

Japanese

Kanji

闇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dark, darkness

Readings

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

闇 (hiragana やみ, rōmaji yami)

  1. the dark, darkness

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
闇
あん
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 闇 (ʔəm, “dark”).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

闇 (hiragana あん, rōmaji an)

  1. darkness, the dark
  2. a dark place
  3. (Buddhism) darkness, as a metaphor for worldly desires

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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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