闇

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

• 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

Historical forms of the character 闇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯːms) : semantic 門 + phonetic 音 (OC *qrɯm).

闇

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• “闇”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. dark, darkness

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←おん (on, historical)←おむ (omu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: あん (an)^{←あん (an, historical)←あむ (amu, ancient)}
• Kun: やみ (yami, 闇, Jōyō); くらい (kurai, 闇い)

Added to the jōyō kanji list on 30 November 2010; previously classified as jinmeiyō kanji.

• 暗 (Tōyō character written in place of this character)

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”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) やみ​ [yàmíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ja̠mʲi]

闇 (hiragana やみ, rōmaji yami)

1. the dark, darkness

From Middle Chinese 闇 (ʔəm, “dark”).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) あ​ん [áꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ã̠ɴ]

• 暗

闇 (hiragana あん, rōmaji an)

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

闇 • (am) (hangeul 암, revised am, McCune–Reischauer am, Yale am)

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闇 (ám)

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