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U+6697, 暗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6697

[U+6696]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6698]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 72, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日卜廿日 (AYTA), four-corner 60061, composition)

  1. dark
  2. obscure
  3. in secret, covert

References

  • KangXi: page 498, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14065
  • Dae Jaweon: page 866, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1526, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6697

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qɯːm
*qɯːm
*qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
*qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
*qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
*qɯːms
*qɯːms
*qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
*qʰrɯm
*qɯm
*qɯm
*qrɯm
*qrɯm
*qrɯms
*kʰrɯb

Pronunciation


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

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
àn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔomH ›
Old
Chinese
/*qˁum-s/
English dark

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15213
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯːms/

Definitions

  1. dark (without light)
    Antonyms: (guāng)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. darkness

Readings

See also

Etymology

Kanji in this term
あん
Grade: 3

From Middle Chinese (MC ʔʌmH).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana あん, rōmaji an)

  1. darkness

Affix

(hiragana あん, rōmaji an)

  1. dark
  2. blackish
  3. foolish
  4. secret; covert
  5. memorize; recite from memory

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(am) (hangeul , revised am, McCuneReischauer am, Yale am)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ám)

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