暗 àn
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adjective
dark; obscure
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 不明亮 (CCD '暗' 1; Guoyu '暗' adj 1; Mathews 1931 '暗', p. 6; Unihan '暗'; XHZD '暗' 1) -
adjective
in secret; covert; hidden; clandestine
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 不公开的; for example, 明人不做暗事 'honest people do not do things in secret' (CCD '暗' 2; Guoyu '暗' adj 4; Mathews 1931 '暗', p. 6; Unihan '暗'; XHZD '暗' 2) -
verb
to shut (out the light)
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '暗' v) -
adjective
confused
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 不明事理 (CCD '暗' 3; Guoyu '暗' adj 3; XHZD '暗' 3) -
adjective
shady; in the shade
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 阴翳 (Guoyu '暗' adj 2) -
adjective
dull; not shiny
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 無光澤的 (Guoyu '暗' adj 5) -
adverb
stealthily
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 默不作声 (Guoyu '暗' adv) -
noun
darkness
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '暗' n 1) -
proper noun
An
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '暗' n 2) -
noun
dark; tama
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: tama; Japanese: an, Tibetan: mun pa (BCSD '暗', p. 608; DJBT '暗', p. 423; Mahāvyutpatti 'tamaḥ'; MW 'tama'; SH '暗', p. 402)
Contained in
- 黑暗天 Kalaratri
- 暗冥 wrapt in darkness
- 愚癡暗 gloom of delusion and ignorance
- 千年暗室 一灯即明(千年暗室 一燈即明) A Thousand-Year-Long Darkness Is Immediately Dispelled by a Single Lamp
- 昼暗林(晝暗林) smasana; cemetery
- 暗夜天 Kalaratri
Also contained in
晦暗 、 暗中运动 、 暗礁 、 黎明前的黑暗 、 明珠暗投 、 暗箱操作 、 暗访 、 弃暗投明 、 暗疔 、 阴暗 、 暗地 、 明修栈道，暗渡陈仓 、 暗哨 、 暗昧 、 发暗 、 暗器 、 暗中监视 、 暗藏 、 暗腹雪鸡 、 暗箱 、 暗堡 、 明查暗访 、 暗网 、 暗锁 、 暗适应 、 暗处 、 暗探 、 暗自 、 暗红 、 明暗 、 暗合 、 暗记儿 、 暗星云 、 暗潮 、 暗火 、 暗沙 、 暗影 、 暗转 、 暗渠 、 潜滋暗长 、 暗能量 、 暗里 、 暗想 、 暗哨儿 、 暗色鸦雀
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 5 Commentary on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 中觀論疏 — count: 72
- Scroll 2 Notes on the Meaning of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra 首楞嚴義疏注經 — count: 50
- Scroll 1 Bosi Jiao Can Jing 波斯教殘經 — count: 36
- Scroll 1 Notes on the Meaning of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra 首楞嚴義疏注經 — count: 33
- Scroll 1 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 31
- Scroll 5 The Lamp of Discernment (Prajñāpradīpa) 般若燈論釋 — count: 29
- Scroll 2 Great Might Arrived Bodhisattva’s Thinking-of-Buddhas as the Perfect Passage (Śūraṅgama Sūtra) 大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經 — count: 27 , has English translation
- Scroll 32 Zong Jing Lu 宗鏡錄 — count: 26 , has English translation
- Scroll 5 Zhi Guan Fu Xing Chuan Hong Jue 止觀輔行傳弘決 — count: 24
- Scroll 8 Zhi Guan Fu Xing Chuan Hong Jue 止觀輔行傳弘決 — count: 24
Collocations
- 暗慢 (暗慢) 離暗慢怖能壞貪欲 — Pusa Bensheng Man Lun (Jātakamālā) 菩薩本生鬘論, Scroll 5 — count: 37
- 癡暗 (癡暗) 佛日出世破除癡暗 — Pusa Bensheng Man Lun (Jātakamālā) 菩薩本生鬘論, Scroll 4 — count: 18
- 冥暗 (冥暗) 皆悉冥暗 — The Story of the Two Brahmins Vāsiṣṭa and Bhāradvāja (Baiyi Jin Chuang Er Poluomen Yuanqi Jing) 白衣金幢二婆羅門緣起經, Scroll 2 — count: 9
- 愚暗 (愚暗) 實愚暗不知故耳 — Sutra on the Five Angels of Yama; Yan Luo Wang Wu Tian Shizhe Jing (Devadūtasutta) 閻羅王五天使者經, Scroll 1 — count: 7
- 无明暗 (無明暗) 滅除無明暗 — Fang Guang Da Zhuangyan Jing (Lalitavistara) 方廣大莊嚴經, Scroll 10 — count: 5
- 破暗 (破暗) 名破暗 — Fang Guang Da Zhuangyan Jing (Lalitavistara) 方廣大莊嚴經, Scroll 11 — count: 5
- 夜暗 (夜暗) 而彼夜暗非燈所照 — Wheel Turning King Seven Treasures Sutra (Lunwang Qi Bao Jing) 輪王七寶經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
- 烦恼暗 (煩惱暗) 煩惱暗慢怨對增上 — Pusa Bensheng Man Lun (Jātakamālā) 菩薩本生鬘論, Scroll 11 — count: 5
- 翳暗 (翳暗) 照朗煩惱翳暗而行 — Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經, Scroll 26 — count: 5
- 暗障 (暗障) 相應暗障王所皆是 — Pusa Bensheng Man Lun (Jātakamālā) 菩薩本生鬘論, Scroll 10 — count: 5