暗 (àn): meaning and stroke order
暗 (àn) means variant of 暗, dark, to turn dark, secret; hidden, (literary) confused; ignorant.
暗
- Simplified
- 暗
- Traditional
- 晻, 暗, 闇
- Pinyin
- àn
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Stroke order of 暗
暗
- àn variant of 暗[an4]
- àn dark; to turn dark
- àn (literary) to close (a door); to eclipse
- 13 strokes
- Traditional form: 晻
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Meaning of 暗
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àn
Traditional 晻
- variant of 暗[an4]
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àn
- dark
- to turn dark
- secret; hidden
- (literary) confused; ignorant
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àn
Traditional 闇
- (literary) to close (a door)
- to eclipse
- confused; ignorant (variant of 暗[an4])
- dark (variant of 暗[an4])
Radical and structure
- 暗
- Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 13 strokes · 日 on the left, 音 on the right
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Words with 暗
- 暗中 àn zhōng in the dark; in secret
- 黑暗 hēi àn dark; darkly
- 暗示 àn shì to hint; to suggest; hint; suggestion
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).