Kanji1 / 11
黒 kanji
black
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コク
Kun readings
くろくろずむくろい
Variant forms
黑Words with 黒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3黒板Popularblackboard
- —黒鉛Populargraphite
- —黒海PopularBlack Sea
- —黒人Popularblack person; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
- —漆黒Popularjet-black; pitch-dark; raven-black; stygian
- —黒衣Popularblack clothes
- —黒煙Popularblack smoke
- —暗黒Populardarkness
- —大黒柱Popularcentral pillar (of a building); mainstay (e.g. of an economy); backbone (e.g. of a family); provider; main man
- —黒奴black slave; black person
- —黒影silhouette; dark shadow
- —黒鍵black key (on a piano, organ, etc.)
- —黒漆black lacquer; black-lacquered object; jet black
- —黒線black line; linea nigra; pregnancy line
- —黒炭bituminous coal
- —黒檀ebony
- —黒点black spot; dark spot; sunspot
- —黒土black terracotta; black soil
- —黒表black list
- —黒風sky-darkening dust storm