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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
- —暗黒期eclipse period (in viral lifecycle); eclipse phase; dark age
- —黒褐色blackish brown
- —黒死病plague; Black Death
- —黒色腫melanoma
- —黒水熱blackwater fever
- —黒内障black cataract; amaurosis
- —黒曜岩obsidian
- —黒曜石obsidian
- —暗黒面the dark side; the seamy side
- —暗黒街the underworld
- —黒斑病purple spot (on a plant)
- —大黒天Mahakala (incarnation of Mahesvara); Daikokuten; god of wealth
- —黒式尉noh mask used for old man roles (usu. black)
- —大黒鼠white rat; white rat that serves Daikoku (god of wealth)
- —黒人兵black (i.e. African-American) soldier; buffalo soldier
- —白金黒platinum black (black powdered platinum, often used as a catalyst)
- —黒丸烏Daurian jackdaw (Corvus dauuricus)
- —黒紫色dark purple
- —黒皮症melanosis
- —黒熱病kala-azar; black fever; visceral leishmaniasis