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Dull
daru
ダル is the name Dull in Japanese Katakana.
Note: Because this title is entirely Japanese Katakana, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
Dull
dù ěr
杜爾 is the name Dull in Chinese (Mandarin).
Darkness
闇 is the shortest and universal way (in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja) to write “darkness.”
In Chinese, this can mean dark, gloomy, hidden, secret, to shut the door, or unilluminated.
In Japanese, this can mean darkness, the dark, black-marketeering, dark, shady, or illegal.
In old Korean Hanja, this can mean dark, obscure, hidden, or secret.
Note that there is an alternate form of this character. It is used as an alternate in all three languages (that rarely happens). You can see this alternate version to the right. If you want to order that version, please click on that character, instead of the button above.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
暗 see styles |
àn an4 an an あん |
dark; to turn dark; secret; hidden; (literary) confused; ignorant (ant: 明・めい・1) darkness; (female given name) Hikage Dark, dim, gloom, dull; secret, hidden. |
たる see styles |
daru ダル |
(adjectival noun) dull; lifeless; boring; (place-name) Daru (Papua New Guinea); Dal |
暗い see styles |
kurai くらい |
More info & calligraphy: Kurai |
塞 see styles |
sè se4 se sai |
(bound form) to block; to obstruct To stop up, block, gag; dull; honest; a barrier, frontier; translit. s. |
怚 see styles |
jù ju4 chü |
dull, stupid, suspicious |
憃 see styles |
chōng chong1 ch`ung chung |
foolish; stupid; dull; silly |
拙 see styles |
zhuō zhuo1 cho tsutana つたな |
awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2] (noun or adjectival noun) (1) (archaism) poor; unskillful; clumsy; (pronoun) (2) (humble language) (masculine speech) I; me; (personal name) Tsutana Stupid, clumsy. |
昏 see styles |
hūn hun1 hun kon |
muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness Dusk, dull, confused. |
枯 see styles |
kū ku1 k`u ku ku |
(of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring; (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds Wither, decay. |
瘟 see styles |
wēn wen1 wen |
epidemic; pestilence; plague; (fig.) stupid; dull; (of a performance) lackluster |
鈍 钝 see styles |
dùn dun4 tun don どん |
blunt; stupid (noun or adjectival noun) (ant: 鋭・1) dull; slow; stupid; dull-brained; (given name) Don Dull, blunt, stupid. |
黯 see styles |
àn an4 an |
(bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy |
中根 see styles |
zhōng gēn zhong1 gen1 chung ken nakane なかね |
(place-name, surname) Nakane Medium capacity, neither clever nor dull, of each of the six organs 六根; there are three powers of each organ 上根, 中根, and 下根. |
乾燥 干燥 see styles |
gān zào gan1 zao4 kan tsao kansou / kanso かんそう |
(of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry; (fig.) dull; dry; boring; (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure (n,vs,vt,vi) (1) dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration; desiccation; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) (See 無味乾燥) insipidity |
二根 see styles |
èr gēn er4 gen1 erh ken nikon |
The two "roots" or natural powers. (1) (a) 利根 keen, able (in the religion); (b) 鈍根 dull. (2) (a) 正根; 勝義根The power or ability which uses the sense organs to discern the truth; (b) 扶根; 扶 (or浮) 塵根the sense organs 五根 as aids. (3) The male and female sexual organs. |
信解 see styles |
xìn jiě xin4 jie3 hsin chieh shinge |
Faith and interpretation, i.e. to believe and understand or explain the doctrine; the dull or unintellectual believe, the intelligent interpret; also, faith rids of heresy, interpretation of ignorance. |
冥い see styles |
kurai くらい |
(adjective) (1) dark; gloomy; (2) dark (in colour); dull; (3) depressed; dispirited; (4) sorrowful; bitter (as in a dark past); (5) unclear; unfamiliar; unknown |
凡戦 see styles |
bonsen ぼんせん |
dull game |
利鈍 利钝 see styles |
lì dùn li4 dun4 li tun ridon りどん |
sharp or blunt; bright or foolish (practitioners of) sharp faculties and dull faculties |
十使 see styles |
shí shǐ shi2 shi3 shih shih jū shi |
十大惑; 十根本煩惱 The ten messengers, deluders, fundamental passions; they are divided into five sharp and five dull; the five 鈍使 dull ones are desire, hate, stupidity, pride, and doubt; the five sharp 利使 are 身見, 邊見, 邪見, 見取見, 戒禁見, v. 見. |
十障 see styles |
shí zhàng shi2 zhang4 shih chang jisshō |
Ten hindrances; bodhisattvas in the stage of 十地 overcome these ten hindrances and realize the十眞如 q.v. The hindrances are: (1) 異生性障 the hindrance of the common illusions of the unenlightened, taking the seeming for real; (2) 邪行障 the hindrance of common unenlightened conduct; (3) 暗鈍障 the hindrance of ignorant and dull ideas; (4) 細惑現行障 the hindrance of the illusion that things are real and have independent existence; (5)下乘涅槃障 the hindrance of the lower ideals in Hīnayāna of nirvāṇa; (6) 細相現行障 the hindrance of the ordinary ideas of the pure and impure; (7) 細相現行障 the hindrance of the idea of reincarnation; (8) 無相加行障 the hindrance of the continuance of activity even in the formless world; (9) 不欲行障 the hindrance of no desire to act for the salvation of others; (10) 法未自在障 the hindrance of non- attainment of complete mastery of all things. v. 唯識論 10. |
呆傻 see styles |
dāi shǎ dai1 sha3 tai sha |
stupid; foolish; dull-witted |
呆滯 呆滞 see styles |
dāi zhì dai1 zhi4 tai chih |
dull; lifeless; sluggish |
呻る see styles |
unaru うなる |
(v5r,vi) (1) to groan; to moan; (2) to roar; to howl; to growl; (3) to hum (e.g. engine, wires in wind); to buzz; to sough; low, dull sound; (4) to ooh and aah (in admiration); (transitive verb) (5) to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation) |
唸る see styles |
unaru うなる |
(v5r,vi) (1) to groan; to moan; (2) to roar; to howl; to growl; (3) to hum (e.g. engine, wires in wind); to buzz; to sough; low, dull sound; (4) to ooh and aah (in admiration); (transitive verb) (5) to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation) |
大味 see styles |
oomi おおみ |
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) (See 小味・こあじ) flat-tasting; bland; lacking in flavor; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) dull; flat; unimaginative; boring; (place-name, surname) Oomi |
寒い see styles |
samui(p); sabui さむい(P); さぶい |
(adjective) (1) (ant: 暑い・1) cold (e.g. weather); (adjective) (2) uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny |
寝刃 see styles |
netaba ねたば |
dull blade; blunt sword |
平板 see styles |
píng bǎn ping2 ban3 p`ing pan ping pan heiban / heban へいばん |
slab; flat board; (engineering) surface plate; flat; level; (fig.) dull; monotonous; abbr. for 平板電腦|平板电脑[ping2 ban3 dian4 nao3] and 平板手機|平板手机[ping2 ban3 shou3 ji1] (1) flat board; slab; slat; plane table; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) monotonous; dull; flat; boring |
平淡 see styles |
píng dàn ping2 dan4 p`ing tan ping tan heitan / hetan へいたん |
flat; dull; ordinary; nothing special (noun or adjectival noun) simple; quiet |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Dull | ダル | daru | ||
| Dull | 杜爾 杜尔 | dù ěr / du4 er3 / du er / duer | tu erh / tuerh | |
| Darkness | 闇 暗 | yami | àn / an4 / an | |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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