黒 — kanji meaning “black”
黒
black
- Meanings
- black
- On'yomi
- コク (koku)
- Kun'yomi
- くろ、くろ.ずむ、くろ.い
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- 2
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #573 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 203
- Chinese reading
- hēi
Words with 黒
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黒人 | こくじん kokujin | black person |
| 黒い | くろい kuroi | black |
| 黒字 | くろじ kuroji | (being in) the black; surplus |
| 黒板 | こくばん kokuban | blackboard |
| 暗黒 | あんこく ankoku | darkness |
| 白黒 | しろくろ shirokuro | black and white; monochrome |
| 黒木 | くろき kuroki | unbarked lumber |
| 黒幕 | くろまく kuromaku | black curtain |
| 黒髪 | くろかみ kurokami | black hair |
| 真っ黒 | まっくろ makkuro | pitch-black; jet-black; black |
| 漆黒 | しっこく shikkoku | pitch-black; jet-black |
| 黒色 | くろいろ kuroiro | black (colour, color) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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