昏暗

Chinese

		muddle-headed; twilight; to faint muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness	dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret
simp. and trad. (昏暗)		昏	暗
anagram		暗昏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hūn'àn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ ㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹ am³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fûn-am
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hun-àm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hung¹ am³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hūn'àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣ ㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hun-àn
    • Wade–Giles: hun¹-an⁴
    • Yale: hwūn-àn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huenann
    • Palladius: хуньань (xunʹanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵⁵ ˀän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹ am³
    • Yale: fān am
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹ am³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹ em³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵ ɐm³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fûn-am
    • Hakka Romanization System: fun´ am
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fun¹ am⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fun²⁴⁻¹¹ am⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun-àm
    • Tâi-lô: hun-àm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hun'axm
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³ am⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴⁻²² am²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hung¹ am³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung àm
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ³³⁻²³ am²¹³/

Adjective

昏暗

1. (literally and figuratively) dim; gloomy

Synonyms

• 冥冥 (míngmíng) (literary)
• 慘／惨 (cǎn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 慘淡／惨淡 (cǎndàn)
• 慘白／惨白 (cǎnbái)
• 昏沉 (hūnchén)
• 昏黑 (hūnhēi)
• 晦冥 (huìmíng) (literary, used both literally and figuratively)
• 晦暗 (huì'àn) (literary)
• 暗淡 (àndàn) (used both literally and figuratively)
• 烏暗／乌暗 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 陰幽／阴幽 (yīnyōu) (literary)
• 黑暗 (hēi'àn)