闇
Meanings
Noun
No-adjective
1. darkness; the dark
Noun
2. bewilderment; despair; hopelessness
3. hidden place; secrecy; oblivion
Noun
No-adjective
4. black market; shady trading; underhand transactions; illegal channels
Kanji used
Pitch accent
やみ
Used in vocabulary
闇取引
black-market dealings; underhand transactions; shady trading; illegal trade; secret dealings; secret arrangement
Noun
Examples16
闇
Darkness is the absence of light.
猫
A cat can see in the dark.
君
Did you buy it on the black market?
雨
We shall leave for home as soon as it stops raining.
光
The light shines in the darkness.
人々
But man loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.