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暗 kanji
darkness, disappear, shade, informal, grow dark, be blinded
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
アン
Kun readings
くらいくらむくれる
Words with 暗
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —ケネディ大統領暗殺事件assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963); JFK assassination
- —エンドツーエンド暗号化end-to-end encryption; E2EE
- —暗誦recitation; reciting from memory
- —暗翳shadow; gloom
- —暗憺dark; gloomy; somber; depressing
- —暗欝gloom; melancholy
- —暗函camera obscura; black box
- —黒暗darkness; blackness; Kalaratri (Deva)
- —暗暗dark; gloomy
- —暗きょsubterranean drain; culvert; conduit
- —暗々裡secretly; covertly; tacitly
- —暗暗裏secretly; covertly; tacitly
- —暗暗裡secretly; covertly; tacitly
- —暗たんdark; gloomy; somber; depressing
- —暗うつgloom; melancholy
- —暗穴道road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —暗唱番号personal identification number; PIN; password number
- —暗中摸索groping in the dark; exploring new avenues without having any clues
- —まる暗記rote memorization (memorisation); rote learning; indiscriminate memorizing (memorising)
- —暗号化かぎencryption key