Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

1040 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: darkness, disappear, shade, informal, grow dark, be blinded

Kunyomi: くら.い くら.む くれ.る

Onyomi: アン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ひへん

Meaning: sun, day

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

黒(あんこく)   darkness

号(あんごう)   code, password

室(あんしつ)   dark room

黙(あんもく)   tacit, implicit

算(あんざん)   mental arithmetic

(めいあん)   light and darkness

殺する(あんさつする)   assassinate

示する(あんじする)   hint, suggest

記する(あんきする)   memorize, learn

い(くらい)   dark, gloomy

Onyomi Examples

アン darkness

アンウン dark clouds, threatening signs, ominous indications

メイアン light and darkness, light and shade

メイアン gloom, shade

Kunyomi Examples

くらい dark, gloomy, murky, depressed, dispirited, down in the dumps, dark (mood), dark (in colour), dull, ill-boding, dark (e.g. past), suspicious, unlikely (to succeed), hopeless, unpromising, unfamiliar (with), ignorant (of)

い過去 くらいかこ shadowy past, murky past

眩む くらむ to be dazzled by, to be dizzied by, to be disoriented by, to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.), to become dark

暮れる くれる to get dark, to grow dark, to end (of a day, year, season, etc.), to come to an end, to close, to be sunk in (e.g. despair), to be lost in (e.g. thought), to be overcome with