Kanji1 / 5
玄 kanji
mysterious, occultness, black, deep, profound
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゲン
Kun readings
くろくろい
Words with 玄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5玄関Popularentrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule; porch; foyer; mud room
- —玄米Popularunpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
- —玄孫great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant
- —玄麦unpolished wheat or barley
- —幽玄mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound; yūgen
- —玄妙abstruse; occult; mysterious
- —玄冬winter
- —玄能sledgehammer
- —玄黄black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth
- —玄武Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
- —玄冥ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)
- —玄兎moon
- —玄同hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people
- —玄室burial chamber
- —玄鳥swallow
- —玄猪day of the boar in the tenth month; mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)
- —玄草Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)
- —玄猿gibbon
- —玄石magnet
- —玄関先entrance; front door