11 strokes

black

Kunくろ、くろ.ずむ、くろ.い
Onコク

Radicals

Common words

  • 黒人こくじん
    black person, woman in the nightlife business, demimondaine, geisha and prostitutes
  • 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
  • 黒子くろご
    stage assistant dressed in black (in kabuki), stagehand, prompter, behind-the-scenes supporter, string-puller
  • 黒子ほくろ
    mole, lentigo, beauty spot
  • 黒幕くろまく
    black curtain, wirepuller, mastermind, backroom manipulator, éminence grise, power broker
  • 暗黒あんこく
    darkness
  • 黒字くろじ
    (being in) the black, surplus, black letter
  • 黒板こくばん
    blackboard
  • 黒白くろしろ
    black and white, right and wrong
  • 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
  • 黒い霧くろいきり
    thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
  • 漆黒しっこく
    jet black
  • 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
  • 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
  • 浅黒いあさぐろい
    dark (skin, complexion, etc.), swarthy, tanned
  • 黒っぽいくろっぽい
    dark, blackish