"闇" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: “Jōyō” kanji [common]
  1. dark, darkness Tags: kanji Derived forms: 闇夜: a dark night (an'ya), a night with no moon, a dark and depressing outlook, 闇夜 (yamiyo) (ruby: (やみ), ()) (english: a dark night, a night with no moon) Related terms: (Tōyō character written in place of this character)

Noun

IPA: [ja̠mʲi] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (やみ)), yami [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. Ultimate roots uncertain. May be cognate with 病む (yamu, “to be ill”), 止む (yamu, “to stop, to quit”), 黄泉 (yomi, “land of the dead”). Reconstructed as deriving ultimately from Proto-Japonic *yamui. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=やみ}} Old Japanese, {{m|ja|病む||to be ill|tr=yamu}} 病む (yamu, “to be ill”), {{m|ja|止む||to stop, to quit|tr=yamu}} 止む (yamu, “to stop, to quit”), {{m|ja|黄泉||land of the dead|tr=yomi}} 黄泉 (yomi, “land of the dead”), {{inh|ja|jpx-pro|*yamui|sort=やみ}} Proto-Japonic *yamui Head templates: {{ja-noun|やみ}} 闇(やみ) • (yami)
  1. the dark, darkness
    Sense id: en-闇-ja-noun-qvF6qiHc Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [ã̠ɴ] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (あん)), an [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 闇 (MC 'omH, “dark”). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=あん}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|闇|dark}} 闇 (MC 'omH, “dark”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|あん}} 闇(あん) • (an)
  1. darkness, the dark
    Sense id: en-闇-ja-noun-ufeYno1u
  2. a dark place
    Sense id: en-闇-ja-noun-urB9Hhzd
  3. (Buddhism) darkness, as a metaphor for worldly desires Categories (topical): Buddhism
    Sense id: en-闇-ja-noun-geHlbIU7 Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Non-Tōyō characters replaced by Tōyō characters Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 3 3 89 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 3 4 4 4 85 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 7 8 8 8 69 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 36 2 2 2 58 Disambiguation of Non-Tōyō characters replaced by Tōyō characters: 18 8 8 8 58 Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms:
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for 闇 meaning in Japanese (5.4kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.