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
- —黒色矮星black dwarf
- —黒体放射black-body radiation
- —暗黒物質dark matter
- —西黒丸烏Eurasian jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
- —黒胆汁質melancholic temperament
- —暗黒舞踏butoh; style of contemporary Japanese dance featuring dancers in white paint
- —黒人英語African American Vernacular English; AAVE; Black English; ebonics
- —黒体輻射black-body radiation
- —黒色炭素black carbon
- —黒板消しblackboard eraser
- —暗黒空間dark space
- —黒竜江省Heilongjiang Province (China)
- —黒人大学black university (e.g. in the US); black college
- —大黒頭巾bouffant cloth cap (traditionally worn by old people and monks)
- —酸化黒鉛graphite oxide
- —黒糖焼酎brown sugar shōchū
- —黒衣の宰相Buddhist priest who is also an important politician
- —悪性黒色腫malignant melanoma
- —日光性黒子solar lentigo; sun spot; liver spot; lentigo solaris
- —黒色表皮腫acanthosis nigricans