晦暗 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

huì'àn

gloomy

huì dark

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 每 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

每 Sound component

měi every

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xwojH	m̥ ˤək-s	last day of a moon; dark
Zhengzhang		hmɯːs
Unicode	xuə̀i

說文解字

月盡也。从日每聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

àn dark

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 音 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

音 Sound component

yīn sound

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'omH	qˤum-s	dark

說文解字

《說文》：“暗，日無光也。从日，音聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)