| 154 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 243 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 224 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1044 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2154 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 576 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 191 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1883 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 348 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 348 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 107 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 992 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1273 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 689 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 921 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 491 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 14065 | Morohashi |
| 1010 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2503 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 480 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 519 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 415 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1040 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 暗 【アン】 darkness
- 暗雲 【アンウン】 dark clouds, threatening signs, ominous indications
- 明暗 【メイアン】 light and darkness, light and shade
- 冥暗 【メイアン】 gloom, shade
Kun reading compounds
- 暗い 【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)
- 暗い過去 【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
Readings
- Korean:
- am
Spanish
- oscuro
- poco claro
- memorizar
- sombrío
Portuguese
- escuridão
- desaparecer
- sombra
- informal
- escurecer
- cegar
French
- obscurité
- disparaître
- ombre
- informel
- s'assombrir
- être aveuglé
| 3878 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4c9.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-9 | SKIP code |
| 6006.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-16-37 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6697 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
401 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 然 【ゼン】 -like
- 然諾 【ゼンダク】 consent, saying yes
- 必然 【ヒツゼン】 inevitable, necessary, certain, sure, inevitability, necessity
- 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
- 寂然 【セキゼン】 lonely, desolate, forlornness, desolation
- 自然 【ジネン】 occurring naturally (without human influence)
Kun reading compounds
- 然 【しか】 like that, as such, yeah, uh-huh
- 然し 【しかし】 however, but
- 然り 【しかり】 yes, yea, aye, affirmative, to be so
- 然し 【しかし】 however, but
- 而して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
- 然 【さ】 so, like that, in that way
- 然らば 【さらば】 farewell, goodbye, adieu, if so, in that case, then, and (then)
- 然然 【ささ】 such and such
Readings
- Korean:
- yeon
Spanish
- de esa forma
- en ese caso
Portuguese
- Tipos de objetos
- assim
- se assim
- naquele caso
- bem
French
- un certain
- si c'est comme ça
- dans ce cas
- suffixe adverbial
| 450 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 557 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 528 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 375 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2770 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 437 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 716 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1788 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 651 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 662 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 401 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1279 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3456 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1779 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2423 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 246 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 19149 | Morohashi |
| 2782 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3435 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 241 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 256 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 144 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 592 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2540 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4d8.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-8-4 | SKIP code |
| 2333.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-33-19 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7136 | Unicode hex code |