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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暗* | 暗* | *暗
dark / to turn dark / secret; hidden / (literary) confused; ignorant
HSK 4
to hint; to suggest / hint; suggestion
HSK 4
in the dark / in secret / on the sly / surreptitiously
HSK 7-9
(photography) darkroom
inner room
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
HSK 7-9
to assassinate
HSK 7-9
dark; dim
lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暗* | 暗* | *暗
variant of
HSK 4
to make secret inquiries / to investigate in secret
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暗* | 暗* | *暗
(literary) to close (a door) / to eclipse / confused; ignorant (variant of ) / dark (variant of )
HSK 4
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
secret mark
to agree implicitly / of one mind / views coincide without a word exchanged
to monitor secretly / to spy on
Diablo (video game series)
secret signal (sign) / countersign / password
underground river
shadow; umbra
to imply; to suggest; to connote / implicit
submerged reef (rock)
laugh in (up) one's sleeve / snigger / snicker
(visual physiology) dark adaptation
black-crowned night heron (Tw)
(astronomy) dark energy
built-in lock; concealed lock (flush with the surface, with only the keyhole visible) (contrasted with 明鎖|明锁 "exposed lock")
hidden sentry post
to cast flirtatious glances at sb (idiom)
secret agent / detective
to curse under one's breath / to grumble inaudibly
concealed weapon
to kill secretly / to stab in the back
(bird species of China) dark-breasted rosefinch (Procarduelis nipalensis)
black-crowned night heron (Tw)
dark; dim (light); dull (color); drab / (fig.) gloomy; bleak
to be secretly in love with
camera bellows / camera obscura
(computing) Dark Web
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
hidden snap fastener (concealed behind a flap on a garment)
hidden smile / smirk / to rejoice covertly / secret satisfaction concerning one's evil plans
internal injury / invisible damage
submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats / (fig.) informer / spy
metaphor
sewer; underground drainage channel
to be secretly delighted
attack by a hidden enemy; a stab in the back
secret passage; secret tunnel
subtle fragrance
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
obscure / remaining unenlightened
to plot against
(astronomy) dark nebula; absorption nebula
underground water channel / covered ditch / culvert
undercurrent
code word
camera bag (for changing film)
(poetic depiction of plum blossom)
darkroom
bunker
unlicensed (unregistered) prostitute
hidden shoal
secret place
hidden loss (finance)
to commit to memory / secret mark
to hint at / to imply / sth hidden
secretly / inwardly
submerged sandbank / submerged coral islet
inwardly / to oneself / secretly
(bird species of China) grey-hooded parrotbill (Suthora zappeyi)
open enquiries and secret search (idiom); to investigate openly and in secret / taking information from all sides
think to oneself
blind shaft / winze
(bird species of China) dark-rumped swift (Apus acuticauda)
undercurrent
axillary furuncle / armpit boil
(bird species of China) greenish warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides)
magazine / cassette
(bird species of China) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
latent menstruation (TCM)
(bird species of China) Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex)
privately; secretly; behind closed doors
(theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly
unmentionable disease / a disease one is ashamed of
(bird species of China) Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis)
dark-line spectrum
dull (complexion)
acne
black-crowned night heron (Tw)
(physics) dark matter
veiled design incised in porcelain or woven in fabric
to hide / to conceal
whistle given as a secret signal
(bird species of China) black-winged cuckooshrike (Lalage melaschistos)
(bird species of China) rufescent prinia (Prinia rufescens)
sealed pot calcination (TCM)


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