Entry
  1. Taru adjective, Adverb taking the 'to' particle, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Noun

    dark; invisible

Also written 冥冥【めいめい】瞑々【めいめい】瞑瞑【めいめい】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

dark

Kun
くら.い
On
メイミョウ
Strokes
10
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2349 of 2500
Radical
cover

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Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
2-2-8SKIP code
2i8.2The Kanji Dictionary
3780.0Four corner code
51a5Unicode hex code
1-44-29JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
630Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
405New Nelson (John Haig)
2613Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1810Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2841Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
322Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1158Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1588Morohashi
1522Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
ming2Pinyin reading
myeongKorean reading