Illustration: A sudden power failure has left a rural guesthouse corridor almost completely unlit. A guest crouches close to a small emergency torch, whose narrow beam reveals only a slipper and the lower edge of a sliding door. Beyond that patch, the corridor and its furnishings disappear into darkness.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

暗あん黒こく

ankoku

dark

Used for literal darkness and dark periods. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. さらに太平洋戦争たいへいようせんそうの終戦後しゅうせんごも復興ふっこうを待まつまでの間ま、長ながい暗黒あんこくの時代じだいが続つづくことになった。

    After the end of World War II, they also had to endure the long gloomy period until Japan accomplished postwar rehabilitation.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 作曲家さっきょくかのすぎやまこういちも「日本にっぽんの音楽文化おんがくぶんかに暗黒あんこく時代じだいを築きずいた」と自著じちょに記しるしている。

    Koichi SUGIYAMA, a composer, also writes in his book that it 'brought about the dark age in Japanese music culture.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. なお、天あまの川がわのあちこちに中州なかすのように暗くらい部分ぶぶんがあるのは、星ほしがないのではなく、暗黒あんこく星雲せいうんがあって、その向むこうの星ほしを隠かくしているためである。

    Incidentally, there exist some dark areas from place to place in the Milky Way like sandbanks in a stream, and this is not because there are no stars in the area, but because dark nebula conceal stars behind itself.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 暗黒

  • 暗darkness; disappearOnアンKunくらい・くらむ・くれる
  • 黒blackOnコクKunくろ・くろずむ・くろい

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