What does blackening mean?

[Eesee099]

What does it exactly mean? Because I know it happened in Chinese novels. Usually it happens when a character has a grudge or something like that. Is it okay to describe it like anger?

 

[Cipiteca396]

Uh... If you mean a translated word, then you'd have to either find the original word or ask a translator who works with that language.

In English, blackening means 'to become darker, or black'. Usually it's a result of fire damage, decay, bruising or strong lights and shadows. It can also refer to someone's reputation or bearing, in a metaphorical sense.

 

[RepresentingSilence]

It isn't racist if that's what you're asking

 

[ArrogantYoungMaster]

It means the character became black.
Basically, a daoist has abandoned the orthodox path and turned to demonic cultivation practices.

 

[Eesee099]

It means the character became black.
Basically, a daoist has abandoned the orthodox path and turned to demonic cultivation practices.

I don’t even know how to type it out. So basically in my novel they are romance partners but one of them abandones the other and the one that got abandoned blackened. What would it mean in that scenario?

It isn't racist if that's what you're asking

Hahaha of course not

 

[Cipiteca396]

I don’t even know how to type it out. So basically in my novel they are romance partners but one of them abandones the other and the one that got abandoned blackened. What would it mean in that scenario?

Hahaha of course not

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[Eesee099]

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I swear I’ve seen it used in that way

 

[ArrogantYoungMaster]

I don’t even know how to type it out. So basically in my novel they are romance partners but one of them abandones the other and the one that got abandoned blackened. What would it mean in that scenario?

The abandoned partner became more evil, heartless, or cruel. They are also probably plotting revenge against the partner that abandoned them and anyone associated.

 

[Cipiteca396]

I swear I’ve seen it used in that way

You probably have. Not all translations are Top Tier A+ win an award quality.

Not that it's incorrect either. Metaphors are very common in English. Something like, "As she thought about him, her visage blackened. Every moment, she felt her rage growing, until she felt it would swallow up all the light in the sky."

 

[Eesee099]

The abandoned partner became more evil, heartless, or cruel. They are also probably plotting revenge against the partner that abandoned them and anyone associated.

Thanks!!! Exactly what I was thinking! Thank you!

 

[NotaNuffian]

黑化 Blackened.

Not racist.

Just a term referring to how one becomes less "good" and more "bad".

It often use at characters who are of the "good" alignment in works and when they go "bad". Not "neutral", "bad".

Like a white cloth slowly stained with black.

 

[Jrar]

Man that was not the "blackening" i was thinking haha

 

[RepresentingCaution]

 

[NotaNuffian]

Man that was not the "blackening" i was thinking haha

If it's chinese, there's always the possibility.

Just chinese though, japanese and korean works don't really recognise the concept.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

What does it exactly mean? Because I know it happened in Chinese novels. Usually it happens when a character has a grudge or something like that. Is it okay to describe it like anger?

In Danganronpa, it means to become dirty, emotionally, due to committing the crime. The killers are known as the blackened, while the non-killers are the spotless.

 

[NotaNuffian]

In Danganronpa, it means to become dirty, emotionally, due to committing the crime. The killers are known as the blackened, while the non-killers are the spotless.

Oh.

So it's not just the chinese who had that concept.

Duly noted.

 

[Cipiteca396]

Oh.

So it's not just the chinese who had that concept.

Duly noted.

Technically there's also a 'cold, black-hearted person'. It's a slightly different way of saying it, and a slightly different meaning though. That's still probably the best translation, but you might need to add a few more descriptors to make it work.

 

[Theirl]

What does it exactly mean? Because I know it happened in Chinese novels. Usually it happens when a character has a grudge or something like that. Is it okay to describe it like anger?

Well imagine a white pure and inocent flower, now imagine little by little as the enviroment keep attacking it the flower changes becoming less pure as its petals blackens. Its just a term for corruption, moral degen