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Grade Level: 2
JLPT Level: 3

Frequency: 573

Bushu (Radical) Info:
黒 (くろ)
black

Henshall Mnemonic:
ground in burnt field is black
Stroke Order Diagram (SOD): 11 Strokes



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On-Yomi Reading(s):
コク
Kun-Yomi Reading(s):
くろ
くろ.ずむ
くろ.い
English Meaning(s):
black

Popular words and/or phrases using this kanji:
Click any individual kanji to view it in a new window. Click the [K] after each definition to look up that character at WWWJDIC; Click the [D] to look up that word in WWWJDIC (the definition is the same but other features exist, like sample usage, variations of the word, etc.)
  •   [あんこく]
    (adj-na,n) darkness [K] [D]
  •   [くろ]
    (n) (1) black; (2) dark [K] [D]
  • い   [くろい]
    (adj) (1) black; (2) dark [K] [D]
  •   [くろいきり]
    (n) thick fog [K] [D]
  • っぽい   [くろっぽい]
    (adj) dark; blackish [K] [D]
  •   [こくい]
    (n) black clothes [K] [D]
  •   [くろけむり]
    (n) black smoke [K] [D]
  •   [こくえん]
    (n) graphite [K] [D]
  •   [こっかい]
    Black Sea [K] [D]
  •   [くろこ]
    (n) prompter; stagehand; black figures [K] [D]
  •   [ほくろ]
    (n) dark mole; face mole; beauty spot; mite [K] [D]
  •   [くろじ]
    (n) balance (figure) in the black [K] [D]
  •   [こくしょく]
    (n) black colour [K] [D]
  •   [こくじん]
    (n) black person [K] [D]
  •   [くろぼし]
    (n) black spot; black dot; bull's-eye; failure [K] [D]
  •   [くろしお]
    (n) Japan Current [K] [D]
  •   [くろしろ]
    (n) black and white; right and wrong [K] [D]
  •   [こくばん]
    (n) blackboard [K] [D]
  •   [くろまく]
    (n) black curtain; wire puller; political fixer [K] [D]
  •   [くろき]
    (n) unbarked lumber [K] [D]
  •   [しっこく]
    (n) jet black [K] [D]
  •   [まっくろ]
    (adj-na,n) pitch black [K] [D]
  • い   [あさぐろい]
    (adj) darkish; swarthy [K] [D]
  •   [だいこくばしら]
    (n) central pillar; mainstay [K] [D]
  •   [しろくろ]
    (adj-no,n) black and white [K] [D]
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The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict_doc.html#IREF05