黒 – vocab dash

Keyword

black

Frequency: #573
Strokes: 11
Grade: 2
JLPT (old): N3
Heisig: 186

Readings

くろ62%

コク38%

Mnemonic

Fire sparks drift from a burning barn across the home village, and by morning everything is covered in black soot.

Stroke order

Composed of

里home village 灬fire sparks

Used in kanji

墨black ink 黛blue-black

Used in vocabulary

黒くろ

black; black stone; guilt; guilty person

Noun

黒くろ字じ

(being in) the black; surplus; black letter

Noun

黒こく人じん

black person

Noun

黒くろい

black; dark; blackish; sun-tanned (skin); suspicious; criminal; illicit; darkened and dirty; sooty; covered in dirt; …

I-adjective

黒人くろうと

expert; professional; master; connoisseur; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes

Noun

暗あん黒こく

darkness

Noun

黒こく煙えん

black smoke

Noun

目め黒ぐろ

Meguro City (special ward of Tokyo); Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare)

Noun

白しろ黒くろ

black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence

Noun

黒こっ海かい

Black Sea

Noun

黒くろ幕まく

black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator; éminence grise; power broker

Noun

真まっ黒くろ

pitch-black; jet-black; black; strongly tanned; deeply sunburnt; sooty; black with dirt

Na-adjective

黒くろ木き

unbarked lumber

Noun

黒くろ塗ぬり

blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blacked out; blackened thing

No-adjective

黒くろ星ぼし

black spot; black dot; bull's-eye; mark indicating a defeat; loss; failure; mistake; faux pas

Noun

黒こく板ばん

blackboard

Noun

黒くろ色いろ

black (colour, color)

Noun

黒こく鉛えん

graphite

Noun

大だい黒こく柱ばしら

central pillar (of a building); mainstay (e.g. of an economy); backbone (e.g. of a family); provider; main man

Noun

黒くろ子ご

stage assistant dressed in black; stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller

Noun

黒くろ米ごめ

unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice; black rice

Noun

黒くろ髪かみ

black hair

Noun

黒くろ金がね

iron

Noun

黒こく子し

lentigo; mole

Noun