闇 àn

1. àn verb to shut a door
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 关门 (Guoyu '闇' v 1; Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6; Unihan '闇')
2. àn adjective dark; dismal
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '闇' adj 1; Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6; Unihan '闇')
3. àn verb to withdraw
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6)
4. àn noun eclipse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6)
5. àn noun night
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 夜 (Guoyu '闇' n 1; Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6)
6. àn verb to deceive
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 蒙蔽 (Guoyu '闇' v 2)
7. àn verb to bury; to submerge
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 湮没 (Guoyu '闇' v 3)
8. àn verb to not understand
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不了解 (Guoyu '闇' v 4)
9. àn verb ignorant; confused
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 昏昧 (Guoyu '闇' adj 2)
10. àn noun an ignorant person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' n 2)
11. ān noun a room for watching over a coffin
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' ān n 1)
12. ān verb to be familiar with
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' ān v 1)

Contained in

• 闇门谢客(闇門謝客) to close the door to visitors
• 闇同 same idea as another
• 闇合 agreeing with the ideas of another
• 闇冥 darkness
• 今世闇于性(今世闇於性) this generation does not understand nature
• 闇昏时(闇昏時) evening
• 闇漠 dark
• 闇浅(闇淺) ignorant; shallow in understanding
• 闇行 to walk in the dark
• 闇蔽 ignorant
• 闇弱 weak and devoid of sense; indecisive

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 21
• 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 成相篇第二十五 Chapter 25: Working Songs Xunzi 荀子 — count: 9
• 臣道篇第十三 Chapter 13: The Way of the Statesman Xunzi 荀子 — count: 9
• 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 卷五十二 列傳第三十三 文學 Volume 52 Biographies 33: Men of Letters Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 8
• 卷108之三 禮志四之三 Volume 108c Treatise 4: Rituals 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 8
• 卷五十四 Scroll 54 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 6
• 卷九 志第一 禮上 Volume 9 Treatises 1: Rituals 1 Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 6

Collocations

• 谅闇 (諒闇) 高宗諒闇 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪服四制》 The Four Principles Underlying the Dress of Mourning — count: 18
• 闇主 (闇主) 闇主亂于姦臣小人之疑君子者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十三　氾論訓 Chapter 13: Overflowing Discussions — count: 14
• 愚闇 (愚闇) 愚闇愚闇墮賢良 — Xunzi 荀子, 成相篇第二十五 Chapter 25: Working Songs — count: 12
• 闇君 (闇君) 闇君者 — Xunzi 荀子, 王霸篇第十一 Chapter 11: Rulers and Tyrants — count: 11
• 闇昧 (闇昧) 況於闇昧之事乎 — New Discussions 新語, 卷上　道基第一　術事第二　輔政第三　無為第四　辨惑第五　慎微第六　Scroll 1 — count: 9
• 主闇 (主闇) 故不憚亂主闇上之患禍 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 問田第四十二 Chapter 42: Asking about Fields — count: 5
• 闇上 (闇上) 故不憚亂主闇上之患禍 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 問田第四十二 Chapter 42: Asking about Fields — count: 4
• 上闇 (上闇) 上闇也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 八經第四十八 Chapter 48: Eight Classics — count: 4
• 闇诵 (闇誦) 卿能闇誦乎 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十一 魏書二十一 王衛二劉傅傳 Volume 21: Book of Wei 21 - Biographies of Wang, Wei, and the two Lius — count: 3
• 闇能 (闇能) 伏闇能存而能亡者 — Guanzi 管子, 水地第三十九 Chapter 39: Water and Earth — count: 3