àn
dark
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 音 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤum-s | 'omH | àn | dark |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 41.0219% of movies
971st most common character in movies
829th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6697 |
Shuowen | “暗,日無光也。从日,音聲。” |
Sources
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