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晦 means 'disappear' or 'last day of the month'

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Strokes : 11    Frequency: 2665   Usefulness: 6    Study set: 6-7    Grade: 9   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 8 words   Used in 18 words   Used in 9 names   Not used as a component
Jinmeiyō (人名用)
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   カイ
Kun
   disappear; dark   みそか   つごもり last day of the month
Kun    くら   くら
Name    もり
In some fonts, the right side of this character appears as the modern form (every, each), and the total stroke count is 10. However, in other fonts, it appears as the original form (every), and the stroke count is 11. There is no unicode code point for the 10 stroke form.
⿰   sun; day   () every  
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晦 is not used in the most common form of any of the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese.
Across all words in Japanese, 晦 is used 13 times, read 4 ways. 1 word uses a non-standard reading.
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noun
darkness
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みそか : 1 word FIND ALL
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Most common form: 三十日
noun
last day of the month  (see also: 月末)
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つごもり : 1 word FIND ALL
4
noun
the last day of the year; New Year's Eve  (see also: 大晦日)
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くら : 3 words FIND ALL
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Most common form: 暗ます
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to abscond; to conceal oneself  (often written with kana only)
2. to deceive; to dissemble; to fool  (often written with kana only)
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Part of a non-standard reading: 1 word. FIND ALL
3
noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
New Year's Eve; December 31st
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An additional カイ less common words include 晦 but the reading has not yet been categorized.

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カイ    disappear; dark   みそか    つごもり last day of the month   
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マイ   ごと every, each   
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
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