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
- —玄関番doorkeeper; doorman; porter
- —玄武岩basalt; whin(stone)
- —玄米茶green tea with roasted brown rice
- —信玄袋cloth bag
- —表玄関front door; vestibule
- —内玄関side entrance
- —玄昌石type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)
- —玄関口entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)
- —玄米粉unpolished rice powder; brown rice flour
- —玄そばbuckwheat with the husk intact; buckwheat dried in the sun
- —玄洋社Dark Ocean Society (1881-1946); Black Ocean Society
- —信玄餅shingen mochi (sweet made by Kinseiken)
- —玄関払いrefusing to see a visitor
- —天地玄黄heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth
- —正面玄関front entrance; front door
- —空の玄関airport
- —発芽玄米germinated brown rice; sprouted brown rice
- —玄武岩質basaltic
- —玄米パンsteamed bread made with unpolished rice flour
- —酵素玄米koso genmai; fermented brown rice