Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be disoriented by

    Usually written using kana alone

    真昼の太陽がテニスコートを目も眩むほどに照らしあげた。
    The noonday sun beat down with dazzling brightness on the tennis court.
  2. to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)

    Usually written using kana alone

  3. to become dark

    Archaic

Also written 暗む【くらむ】晦む【くらむ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

faint, dizzy

Kun
げん.すくるめ.くまぶ.しいくら.むまど.うめま.いまばゆ.いくれ.るま.う
On
ゲンカン
Strokes
10
Radical
eye

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Dictionary and index codes (12)
CodeReference
1-5-5SKIP code
5c5.3The Kanji Dictionary
6003.2Four corner code
7729Unicode hex code
1-66-33JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3133Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3924New Nelson (John Haig)
2581Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2629Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
23254Morohashi
xuan4Pinyin reading
hyeon, hwanKorean reading