黑暗

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黑暗

  • hēi'àn Mandarin, Pinyin
  • ㄏㄟ ㄢˋ Mandarin, Bopomofo
  • hak¹ am³ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • het-am Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • hêg⁴ am³ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • he⁶ ngan⁴ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • hēi'àn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄏㄟ ㄢˋ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • hei-àn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • hei¹-an⁴ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • hēi-àn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • heiann Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • хэйань Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /xeɪ̯⁵⁵ ˀän⁵¹/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • hak¹ am³ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • hāk am Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • hak⁷ am³ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • heg¹ em³ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • /hɐk̚⁵ ɐm³³/ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • het-am Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli
  • hed^ˋ am Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli
  • hed⁵ am⁴ Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli
  • /het̚² am⁵⁵/ Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli
  • hek àm Min Nan, Teochew, POJ
  • /hek̚²⁻⁴ am²¹³/ Min Nan, Teochew, IPA
  • /xɤ̞²⁴ ŋan⁴⁵/ Xiang, Changsha, IPA
  • xok 'omH Middle Chinese

Where it comes from

9世紀成書的《酉陽雑俎》中,黑暗 (中古 xok 'omH)是波斯人對犀牛角的稱呼,與白暗 (中古 baek 'omH)(象牙)相對。

Laufer (1914: 145)和Laufer (1967: 473)指出,這兩個名字不可能是來自波斯,而是來自馬來亞,並表示這兩個詞與“犀牛角/犀牛”、“象牙/大象”在詞源上都沒有關聯,而是來自當時馬來亞商人用於區分犀牛角和象牙的用詞,音變自表示“黑色”和“白色”的詞。

Laufer 將前者與嘉萊語 [具體何詞?] (hötam)、宿霧語 itom、馬來語 hitam、爪哇語 item、他加祿語 itim對比(均為南島語系中表示“黑色”的詞)。後者與占語 bauṅ、boṅ / bhuṅ;瑟諾伊語 biūg、馬六甲的塞芒語詞 biok、biäk、biēg、begiäk、bekuṅ、bekog;Alfur、布拉萬語、Kon tu、Kaseng、Lave、Niah語 bok、色當語 röboṅ、斯丁語 bōk(“白色”);巴拿語 bak(孟語 bu)對比(大部分均為孟-高棉語族中表示“白色”的詞;參見*kɓɔɔk、*kbooʔ)。

adjective 黑黯

  1. 不光明的 光照在黑暗裏,黑暗卻不接受光。
  2. figuratively 邪惡;墮落;污穢,骯髒 一個黑暗的世界

Similar: 烏暗, 乌暗

noun 黑黯

  1. obsolete 犀牛角

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adjective

Similar: 烏暗, 乌暗

In English

  • dark having an absolute or relative lack of light
  • darkness state of being dark
  • obscurity darkness; the absence of light

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {黑暗},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E9%BB%91%E6%9A%97},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}