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jmdict 2861090 Active (id: 2299119)
頻闇
しきやみ
1. [n] [arch]
▶ total darkness



History:
3. A 2024-04-25 01:09:02  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2024-04-24 23:16:51  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Dialogue from the linked image:
>> 魑魅魍魎の跳梁跋扈する頻闇の帷が帝都を包む宵、決闘の緞帳が開く!

Out of the kokugos, I only see this in koj. It quotes waka poetry from the 7th century.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬─────╮
│ 頻闇  │ 199 │
│ 頻闇の │  24 │
╰─ーーー─┴─────╯
  Comments:
Noun gloss
  Diff:
@@ -12,3 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>pitch-dark</gloss>
-<gloss>pitch-black</gloss>
-<gloss>completely dark​</gloss>
+<misc>&arch;</misc>
+<gloss>total darkness</gloss>
1. A* 2024-04-24 22:32:32 
  Refs:
https://www.weblio.jp/content/頻闇
  Comments:
This word is used in a sentence in the well-known 逆転裁判 video game series. Without an entry in jmdict, the reader may think it's a made-up word...

https://i.imgur.com/uxTU2DH.jpeg

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