"Darkness" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 黑暗 | hēi àn | dark / darkly / darkness |   |
| 黑影 | hēi yǐng | shadow / darkness / twilight | |
| 阴暗 | yīn àn | dim / dark / overcast / darkness / shadow / (fig.) dismal / gloomy / somber / murky / shadowy (side) | |
| 夜幕 | yè mù | curtain of night / gathering darkness | |
| 茅塞顿开 | máo sè dùn kāi | murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom) / a sudden flash of insight and all is clear | |
| 幽明 | yōu míng | the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts | |
| 黎明前的黑暗 | lí míng qián de hēi àn | darkness comes before dawn / things can only get better (idiom) | |
| 夜幕低垂 | yè mù dī chuí | darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc) | |
| 刁斗 | diāo dǒu | soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times) | |
