暗昧 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

ànmèi

obscure

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)

mèi obscure

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

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

未 Sound component

wèi not yet

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Qin 221-206 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mwojH	mˤ[u][t]-s	dusk; dark
Zhengzhang		mɯːds
Unicode	mə̀i

說文解字

爽，旦明也。从日未聲。一曰闇也。

Sources

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