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黑暗 (hēi àn): meaning and stroke order

黑暗 (hēi àn) means dark, darkly, darkness.

黑暗

Simplified
黑暗
Traditional
黑暗 (same form)
Pinyin
hēi àn

Stroke order of 黑暗

黑

  • Hēi abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
  • hēi black; dark
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

暗

  • àn variant of 暗[an4]
  • àn dark; to turn dark
  • àn (literary) to close (a door); to eclipse
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 晻

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 黑暗

  1. hēi àn
    • dark
    • darkly
    • darkness

Radicals of the characters

黑
Radical 黑 (Kangxi radical 203) · 12 strokes
暗
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 13 strokes · 日 on the left, 音 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

黑暗 in our stories

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  • 他抓起一把巨大的斧头，朝眼前的黑暗用力一劈，只听一声巨响，鸡蛋裂成了两半。

    tā zhuā qǐ yì bǎ jùdà de fǔtou cháo yǎnqián de hēi'àn yònglì yì pī zhǐ tīng yì shēng jùxiǎng jīdàn liè chéng le liǎng bàn

    He seized a huge axe and swung it hard into the darkness before him; with a tremendous crash the egg split in two.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 凌晨两点，他们从最后一个营地出发。头灯的光在黑暗中连成一条线，每走一步，都要大口喘三口气。

    língchén liǎng diǎn tāmen cóng zuìhòu yí gè yíngdì chūfā tóudēng de guāng zài hēi'àn zhōng lián chéng yì tiáo xiàn měi zǒu yí bù dōu yào dàkǒu chuǎn sān kǒu qì

    At two in the morning they set out from the last camp. The headlamps formed a line of light in the darkness, and every step took three great gasps of breath.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 黑暗

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).