暗 àn▶ dark

HSK 5HSK 3.0 · Level 4

HSK 5 — advanced proficiency: 1,300 new words, 2,500 in all. You can read newspapers, enjoy films and give speeches in Chinese. In HSK 3.0, 暗 is in band 4. HSK 5 explained

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中暗means dark. Imagine you walk into a room at night and can barely see anything. You'd say it to the friend beside you, just before reaching for the light switch. Say it with me.

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Stroke order

暗 is written in 13 strokes.

• 暗

Senses

1. dark
2. to turn dark
3. secret; hidden
4. (literary) confused; ignorant

Related words

• 暗示suggest secretly

暗 is pronounced àn and means “dark”.