Kanji

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

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: くろ

Meaning: black

Strokes: 12

Examples

Examples with audio

板(こくばん)   blackboard

(あんこく)   darkness

い(くろい)   black

髪(くろかみ)   black hair

(しろくろ)   black and white

真っな(まっくろな)   pitch black

Onyomi Examples

コクエン black smoke

コクイ black clothes

ダイコク god of wealth, monk's wife

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

Kunyomi Examples

くろ black, black go stone, guilt, guilty person

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

ずむ くろずむ to blacken, to darken

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

くろいろ black (colour, color)