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暗

JLPT N3 SL3 13 strokes Frequency: #1040

Meanings

Darkness, Disappear, Shade, Informal, Grow Dark, Be Blinded

Radicals

日

Decomposition

⿰日音

Etymology

Pictophonetic: sun

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-to-top

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 dot right-to-left

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

11 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

13 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

アン an

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

くら kura

くれ kure

Words Using This Kanji

191 words total

Other (20 words)

暗中飛躍あんちゅうひやく

behind-the-scenes maneuvering

暗剣殺あんけんさつ

unpropitious direction

暗黒星雲あんこくせいうん

dark nebula

暗線あんせん

dark line (in a spectrum)

cryptography

the dark side

dark green

cryptogram

a work or subject to be memorized (memorised)

dark green

pitch-dark

the underworld

assassin

dark purple

shadow cast by a person's hand

暗殺を謀るあんさつをはかる

to plot an assassination

shadowy past

to feel gloomy

understood subject

dark-natured

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