Today’s second #kanji is #暗, which is made of 日 and 音. 音 usually means a sound but in this case it is indicating “hiding” apparently. I guess it’s easier to hide in the 暗 places…
Meaning: dark
Reading: アン、くら（ぐら）
暗黒（アンコク）（の）: dark, black, gloomy
暗号（アンゴウ）: a cryptogram, a cryptograph, a secret language
暗記（アンキ）: learning by heart, memorizing
暗殺（アンサツ）: (an) assassination
暗礁（アンショウ）: a sunken rock, an uncharted reef; an unexpected difficulty
暗算（アンザン）: mental arithmetic
明暗（メイアン）: light and darkness, light and shade
暗（くら）い: dark, gloomy, somber, hopeless, depressed
真（ま）っ暗（くら）（な）: pitch-dark, (as) dark as midnight
薄（うす）暗（ぐら）い: gloomy, somber, dim
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