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Kanji Detail for 昏 - "dusk, dark, ignorant"

昏

  • Meaning

    昏 means "dusk, dark, ignorant."

    1. Dusk - Twilight; evening.

    2. Dark - Dim after sunset.

    3. Ignorant - Not understanding; foolish.

    4. To be dizzy - To feel faint; to be disoriented.

    5. To marry - Same as the marriage character.

  • Words using 昏

    • 黄昏 たそがれ Listen dusk; twilight; twilight years

  • Origin of 昏

    氏 — 氐, low, abbreviated — over 日, the sun: the sun sunk low, hence dusk, and by extension the confusion of failing light; 昏睡 is a coma. (The Shuowen offers 民 as the sound instead.) Old marriages were held at dusk, which is why 婚 carries this element.

    How to remember it: The sun 日 gone under — dusk, and the dimness that comes with it.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: dusk, dark, ignorant
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    dark; evening; dusk

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark; to faint, to lose consciousness

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Sunset. Sunset is called 昏. Such as 黃昏 (dusk), 昏夜 (evening). | Dim, foolish. Not understanding reason is called 昏憒糊塗 (confused and muddled). | The marriage ceremony is called 昏禮. Because dusk was the appointed time, hence the name. Now written separately as 婚. Also, the wife's father is called 昏, and the husband's father is called 姻. From "Zuo Zhuan commentary." Hence the two families address each other as 婚姻 (in-laws).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kon(コン) コン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kura.i(くらい) くらい

    kure(くれ) くれ

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    dusk dark ignorant marriage to be dizzy to marry twilight dim faint gloomy murky obscure sunset evening

Sentences including 昏

  • I love twilight.

  • We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.

  • Is Tom in a coma?

  • The patient is in a state of profound stupor.

  • When it's dusk in Germany, it's late at night in Japan.

  • Mr Brown is in the sunset of his life.

  • After that, you were in a state of stupor for two months.

  • Unfortunately, my neighbor had a traffic accident and fell into a coma.

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