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


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