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
- —黒斑black spot; black speck
- —大黒god of wealth; monk's wife
- —黒鳥black swan (Cygnus atratus)
- —黒体black body (object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation)
- —黒糖(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
- —二黒second of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and southwest)
- —黒質substantia nigra
- —黒化blackening
- —黒液black liquor
- —黒龍black dragon
- —黒癩black leprosy
- —黒牛black cattle
- —黒便black stools
- —黒玉jet (gemstone)
- —黒鰱bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis)
- —黒闇darkness; blackness; Kalaratri (Deva)
- —黒変blackening; going black; turning black
- —黒雁brent goose (Branta bernicla); brant; brant goose
- —黒子lentigo; mole
- —純黒pitch-black