Kanji
N1 17 strokes Grade 9 freq #1603

be hazy, grow dim, blurred

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

rain ame

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

smoke and mist; (enveloping) mist
summer haze; summer mist
enshrouding mist; mist extending all around
hazy curtain of flowers; cherry blossoms appearing from afar like white mist
evening breeze; evening mist
crimson mist; crimson-tinted clouds (e.g. at sunset)
morning glow; morning mist (haze)
springtime haze
clouds and haze

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

haze (esp. in spring); mist
to become misty; to become hazy
open levee
(flee) like the wind; (run) out of sight
clouded salamander (Hynobius nebulosus)
to get blurry vision; to get bleary eyes
Korean hill cherry (Prunus verecunda)
nepheline
to loom in the distance
to live on air; to live on nothing

Example sentences

His eyes are dim with age.

The stars look dim because of the city lights.