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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

573 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: black

Kunyomi: くろ, くろ.ずむ, くろ.い

Onyomi: コク

黒

Radical

Radical: 黑

Reading: くろ

Meaning: black

Strokes: 12

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Examples

Examples with audio

黒板(こくばん)   blackboard

暗黒(あんこく)   darkness

黒い(くろい)   black

黒髪(くろかみ)   black hair

白黒(しろくろ)   black and white

真っ黒な(まっくろな)   pitch black

Onyomi Examples

黒煙 (コクエン) black smoke

黒衣 (コクイ) black clothes

大黒 (ダイコク) god of wealth, monk's wife

二黒 (ジコク) second of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and southwest)

Kunyomi Examples

黒 (くろ) black, black stone, guilt, guilty person

黒い (くろい) black, dark, blackish, sun-tanned (skin), suspicious, criminal, illicit, darkened and dirty, sooty, covered in dirt, evil, wicked, black-hearted, inauspicious, ill-boding, unlucky

黒ずむ (くろずむ) to blacken, to darken

黒い (くろい) black, dark, blackish, sun-tanned (skin), suspicious, criminal, illicit, darkened and dirty, sooty, covered in dirt, evil, wicked, black-hearted, inauspicious, ill-boding, unlucky

黒色 (くろいろ) black (colour, color)

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