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    闇

    闇やみ

    darkness

    N1KMT8News #13+1CoreNature & EnvironmentEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab17 strokes

    やみ

    Noun, Particle

    1.
    darkness, the dark

    Noun

    2.
    bewilderment, despair, hopelessness
    3.
    hidden place, secrecy, oblivion

    Noun, Particle

    4.
    black market, shady trading, underhand transactions, illegal channels

    Stroke 0 / 17

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    部へ屋やの電でん気きを消けすと、闇やみに包つつまれた。

    When I turned off the room lights, it was enveloped in darkness.

    KMT5Daily LifeNature & Environment
    夜よるの森もりは、深ふかい闇やみと静せい寂じゃくに包つつまれていた。

    The night forest was enveloped in deep darkness and silence.

    KMT7Nature & Environment
    彼かれの心こころには深ふかい闇やみが潜ひそんでいるように見みえた。

    A deep darkness seemed to lurk in his heart.

    KMT8Emotions & PsychologyCore Concepts
    絶ぜつ望ぼうの闇やみから抜ぬけ出だすには、希き望ぼうの光ひかりが必ひつ要ようだ。

    To escape the darkness of despair, a light of hope is needed.

    KMT8Emotions & PsychologyCore Concepts
    経けい済ざいの闇やみに葬ほうむられた事じ件けんの真しん相そうは、未いまだ解かい明めいされていない。

    The truth behind the incident buried in the economic underworld has yet to be uncovered.

    KMT9Business & FinancePolitics & Law

    Kanji that make up this word

    闇
    やみ・くら.い…(2)
    get dark・gloom・disorder
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