àn

  1. àn verb to shut a door
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 关门 (Guoyu '闇' v 1; Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6; Unihan '闇')
  2. àn adjective dark; dismal
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' adj 1; Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6; Unihan '闇')
  3. àn verb to withdraw
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6)
  4. àn noun eclipse
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6)
  5. àn noun night
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 夜 (Guoyu '闇' n 1; Mathews 1931 '闇', p. 6)
  6. àn verb to deceive
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 蒙蔽 (Guoyu '闇' v 2)
  7. àn verb to bury; to submerge
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 湮没 (Guoyu '闇' v 3)
  8. àn verb to not understand
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 不了解 (Guoyu '闇' v 4)
  9. àn verb ignorant; confused
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 昏昧 (Guoyu '闇' adj 2)
  10. àn noun an ignorant person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' n 2)
  11. ān noun a room for watching over a coffin
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' ān n 1)
  12. ān verb to be familiar with
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '闇' ān v 1)
  13. àn phonetic am
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: aṃ; used in mantras, for example in 地藏菩薩儀軌 ”Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Liturgy” (BCSD '闇', p. 1200; FGDB '闇'; SH '闇', p. 463; Zhiru 2007, p. 253; T 1158, 20.0652a22)
  14. àn noun dark; tamas
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: tamas, Japanese: an (BCSD '闇', p. 1200; DJBT '闇', p. 423; SH '闇', p. 463)

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