闇
darkness; get dark; gloom; disorder
17 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1969.
Readings
- やみ (kun reading): 闇 (やみ) darkness; 暗闇 (くらやみ) darkness
- アン (on reading): 諒闇 (りょうあん) court mourning (for the late emperor or empress); 暁闇 (ぎょうあん) dark before dawn
- オン (on reading)
- くらい (kun reading)
Components
Words using 闇
- 闇 (やみ) darkness
- 暗闇 (くらやみ) darkness
- 闇堕ち (やみおち) joining the dark side
- 闇鍋 (やみなべ) stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun
- 闇バイト (やみバイト) illegal part-time job
- 諒闇 (りょうあん) court mourning (for the late emperor or empress)
- 暁闇 (ぎょうあん) dark before dawn
- 闇穴道 (あんけつどう) road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- 黒闇 (こくあん) darkness
- 黒闇天 (こくあんてん) Kalaratri (Deva)
69 words in all.