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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)

codebook

scotoma

blackout curtain

night vision

cool, dark place

undercurrent

dark red

suggestive therapy

stupid

gathering dark clouds

暗箱あんばこ

camera obscura

薄暗がりうすくらがり

semi-darkness

暗送秋波あんそうしゅうは

giving an amorous sidelong look

如法暗夜にょほうあんや

total (utter) darkness

明暗両面めいあんりょうめん

(both) the bright and dark sides

柳暗花明りゅうあんかめい

beautiful scenery of spring

to run aground

darkness

tacit understanding

dark-natured

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