11 strokes

black

Kunくろ、くろ.ずむ、くろ.い
Onコク

Radicals

Common words

  • 黒字くろじ
    (being in) the black, surplus, black letter
  • 黒人こくじん
    black person, woman in the nightlife business, demimondaine, geisha and prostitutes
  • 黒海こっかい
    Black Sea
  • 黒星くろぼし
    black spot, black dot, bull's-eye, mark indicating a defeat, loss, failure, mistake, faux pas
  • 黒木くろき
    unbarked lumber
  • 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
  • 白黒しろくろ
    black and white, monochrome, good and evil, right and wrong, guilt and innocence
  • 黒鉛こくえん
    graphite
  • 黒煙こくえん
    black smoke
  • 黒板こくばん
    blackboard
  • 暗黒あんこく
    darkness
  • 大黒柱だいこくばしら
    central pillar (of a building), mainstay (e.g. of an economy), backbone (e.g. of a family), provider, main man
  • 黒っぽいくろっぽい
    dark, blackish
  • 黒潮くろしお
    Kuroshio Current, Japan Current
  • 黒幕くろまく
    black curtain, wirepuller, mastermind, backroom manipulator, éminence grise, power broker
  • 黒衣こくい
    black clothes
  • 黒色くろいろ
    black (colour, color)
  • 黒船くろふね
    black ships, Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853, foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market), product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market
  • 黒塗りくろぬり
    blackened, black-painted, black-lacquered, blacked out, blackened thing
  • 黒白くろしろ
    black and white, right and wrong