Chinese Character Wiki
暗

àn

dark

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 音 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

音 sound component

音  Sound component

yīn

  

sound

Evolution

暗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
暗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

暗  

àn

dark; obscure; in secret, covert; gloomy; hidden; secret; muddled; in the dark

暗 (晻) 

àn

variant of 暗[àn]

暗 (闇) 

àn

to close (a door); to eclipse; stupid; ignorant

Most common words with 暗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

暗

dark

黑暗

dark

暗示

to hint

暗杀

to assassinate

暗中

in the dark

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤum-s

'omH

àn

dark


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 41.0219% of movies

971st most common character in movies

829th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6697

Shuowen

“暗，日無光也。从日，音聲。”


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