暗

variant of 暗[an4]

dark / gloomy / hidden / secret / muddled / obscure / in the dark

to close (a door) / to eclipse / muddled / stupid / ignorant / variant of 暗[an4]

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

sun / day / date, day of the month

sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)

gloom

to fight openly and maneuver covertly (idiom)

an honest person does not act surreptitiously (idiom)

lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion

open enquiries and secret search (idiom); to investigate openly and in secret / taking information from all sides

both covert and undercover (officers) keeping watch (idiom)

to renounce the dark and seek the light / to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one

dismal / somber

to darken / to become tarnished

to darken

head spinning and eyes dark (idiom); dizzy / fainting / vertigo

listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; heed only one side and you will remain ignorant (idiom)

of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)