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Kurai
暗い is a Japanese word that means dark, gloomy, depressed, dispirited, sorrowful, unclear, and/or unknown.
Gray Color
灰色 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja for the color gray.
This can also mean ash gray, grizzly, pessimistic, gloomy, dispirited, ambiguous (not black and white), and the alternate spelling grey.
Dark Angel
暗い天使 means “Dark Angel,” in Japanese.
The first character means dark, gloomy, hidden, or secret.
The second character is a connecting article.
The last two characters mean angel.
Darkness
暗黒 is the two-character Japanese word for darkness.
The first Kanji can mean unilluminated, dark, gloomy, hidden, or secret.
The second character means black or dark.
Together, these two Kanji will be understood as dark or darkness.
Darkness
黑闇 is the two-character Chinese word for darkness.
The first character alone means black or dark.
The second character has several possible meanings, depending on context; They include: to shut the door, unilluminated, dark, gloomy, hidden, or secret.
Together, these two characters will, in most cases, be translated as dark or darkness.
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.
These search terms might be related to Gloomy:
Attack When the Enemy Has Low Morale
Dark Angel
Dark Sister
Dim Mak
Do Not Fear Poverty; Fear Low Ambitions
Faith is the Bird That Feels the Light When the Dawn is Still Dark
Listen to Both Sides and Be Enlightened, Listen to One Side and Be in the Dark
Melancholy / Sorrow
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
森 see styles |
sēn sen1 sen morihama もりはま |
More info & calligraphy: Forest(1) forest; (2) shrine grove; (surname) Morihama Dense, forest-like. |
蕭 萧 see styles |
xiāo xiao1 hsiao shou / sho しょう |
More info & calligraphy: Siu(1) Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps, Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii); (2) general term for plants in the Artemisia genus; mugwort; sagebrush; wormwood; (surname) Shou gloomy |
暗い see styles |
kurai くらい |
More info & calligraphy: Kurai |
灰色 see styles |
huī sè hui1 se4 hui se haiiro(p); kaishoku(ok) / hairo(p); kaishoku(ok) はいいろ(P); かいしょく(ok) |
More info & calligraphy: Gray Color(noun - becomes adjective with の) grey; gray; ashen |
慘 惨 see styles |
cǎn can3 ts`an tsan |
miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy See: 惨 |
晦 see styles |
huì hui4 hui kai みそか |
(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night last day of the month; (archaism) last day of the month The last day of the moon; night; dark, obscure; unlucky. |
睯 see styles |
hūn hun1 hun |
gloomy; depressed |
黯 see styles |
àn an4 an |
(bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy |
黲 黪 see styles |
cǎn can3 ts`an tsan |
dark; dim; gloomy; bleak |
低沉 see styles |
dī chén di1 chen2 ti ch`en ti chen |
(of weather) overcast; gloomy; (of a voice) low and deep; low-spirited; downcast |
低落 see styles |
dī luò di1 luo4 ti lo teiraku / teraku ていらく |
downcast; gloomy; to decline; to get worse (n,vs,vi) fall; decline; slump |
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 |
悲観 see styles |
hikan ひかん |
(n,vs,vt,vi) (ant: 楽観) pessimism; (taking a) gloomy view; discouragement; despondency; despair; disappointment |
愁悶 愁闷 see styles |
chóu mèn chou2 men4 ch`ou men chou men shūmon |
depressed; gloomy distress |
慘淡 惨淡 see styles |
cǎn dàn can3 dan4 ts`an tan tsan tan |
dark; gloomy; dismal; by painstaking effort |
憂い see styles |
ui うい |
(adjective) unhappy; sad; gloomy |
憂き see styles |
uki うき |
(adj-pn,n) (See 憂い・うい) unhappy; sad; gloomy |
懶げ see styles |
monouge / monoge ものうげ |
(adjectival noun) (1) languorous; weary; listless; (2) somber; sombre; gloomy; despondent |
抑塞 see styles |
yì sè yi4 se4 i se |
to repress; gloomy |
抑鬱 抑郁 see styles |
yì yù yi4 yu4 i yü yokuutsu / yokutsu よくうつ |
depressed; despondent; gloomy dejection; depression |
昏い 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 |
晦暗 see styles |
huì àn hui4 an4 hui an |
dark and gloomy |
暗淡 see styles |
àn dàn an4 dan4 an tan |
dark; dim (light); dull (color); drab; (fig.) gloomy; bleak |
暗澹 see styles |
antan あんたん |
(adj-t,adv-to) dark; gloomy; somber; depressing |
暗然 see styles |
anzen あんぜん |
(adj-t,adv-to) (1) dark; gloomy; black; unclear; (2) doleful; discouraged; disappointed; tearful; dispirited |
曇る see styles |
kumoru くもる |
(v5r,vi) (1) to get cloudy; to cloud over; to become overcast; (v5r,vi) (2) to cloud up; to fog up; to mist up; to become dim; (v5r,vi) (3) to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression); to be downcast; (v5r,vi) (4) (from 面曇る) (See 照る・てる・2) to look slightly downward (of a noh mask; indicating sadness, grief, etc.) |
根暗 see styles |
nekura; nekura ねくら; ネクラ |
(noun or adjectival noun) (colloquialism) (ant: 根明・1) dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum; pessimistic |
沉鬱 沉郁 see styles |
chén yù chen2 yu4 ch`en yü chen yü |
melancholy; gloomy |
溟溟 see styles |
míng míng ming2 ming2 ming ming |
drizzling; gloomy; dim; obscure |
溟蒙 see styles |
míng méng ming2 meng2 ming meng |
drizzling; gloomy; dim; obscure |
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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 | |
| Kurai | 暗い | kurai | ||
| Gray Color | 灰色 | haiiro / hairo | huī sè / hui1 se4 / hui se / huise | |
| Dark Angel | 暗い天使 | kurai tenshi kuraitenshi | ||
| Darkness | 暗黒 | an koku / ankoku | ||
| Darkness | 黑闇 黑暗 | hēi àn / hei1 an4 / hei an / heian | ||
| 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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