闇

闇 (Kangxi 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

• 𭌩, 𤃷, 𧮍

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1338, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41421
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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／形声, OC *qɯːms) : semantic 門 + phonetic 音 (OC *qrɯm).

闇

1. to close the door
2. night; dusk; eclipse
3. Alternative form of 暗 (àn, “dark; secret; ignorant”)

闇

1. room for mourning the death of a ruler
2. Alternative form of 諳／谙 (ān, “to fully understand”)

闇

1. Alternative form of 奄 (“suddenly”)

• “闇”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	闇
Kyūjitai [1][2]	闇󠄂 闇+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(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”).

Reconstructed as deriving ultimately from Proto-Japonic *yamui.

• (Tokyo) やみ [yàmíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ja̠mʲi]

闇(やみ) • (yami) 

1. the dark, darkness

From Middle Chinese 闇 (MC 'omH, “dark”).

• 暗

• (Tokyo) あん [áꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[4]
• IPA^(key): [ã̠ɴ]

闇(あん) • (an) 

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

闇 (eumhun 숨을 암 (sumeul am))

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闇: Hán Nôm readings: ám

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