闇 — get dark, gloom, disorder

やみ闇 get dark

やみ

U+95C7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1969 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1748 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

get dark
gloom
disorder

Readings

On'yomi: あん an おん on
Kun'yomi: やみ yami くら kura

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やみ yami Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

闇(やみ) yami darkness 暗(くら) 闇(やみ) kurayami darkness

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 闇: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school

Appears in idioms

一寸先は闇諺

One inch ahead is darkness

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

もん門 gate #169

おと音 sound #180

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#169 門 gate