| 80 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 137 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 124 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 317 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 5403 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 286 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 284 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1486 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.14 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 206 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 206 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 45 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1940 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3406 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1754 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2388 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 176 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 48040 | Morohashi |
| 2740 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 7052 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 174 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 186 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 204 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
573 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 黒煙 【コクエン】 black smoke
- 黒衣 【コクイ】 black clothes
- 大黒 【ダイコク】 god of wealth, monk's wife
- 二黒 【ジコク】 second of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and southwest)
Kun reading compounds
- 黒 【くろ】 black, black stone, guilt, guilty person
- 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
- 黒ずむ 【くろずむ】 to blacken, to darken
- 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
- 黒色 【くろいろ】 black (colour, color)
Readings
- Korean:
- heug
Spanish
- negro
- maldad
Portuguese
- preto
French
- noir
| 3640 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4d7.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-7-4 | SKIP code |
| 6033.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-25-85 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9ed2 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
835 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 幕 【マク】 curtain, act (in a play), falling of the curtain, end (of a scene), end, close, case, occasion, role (to play), part, place, makuuchi, top division
- 幕開け 【マクアケ】 rise of the curtain, opening of a play, beginning (e.g. of an era), start, opening (of a tournament, festival, etc.)
- 入幕 【ニュウマク】 advancing to the first grade
- 閉幕 【ヘイマク】 falling of the curtain, (coming to an) end, close
- 幕末 【バクマツ】 Bakumatsu period, closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate, end of the Edo period
- 幕府 【バクフ】 shogunate, bakufu, shogun's headquarters, Imperial Guards office, residence of the Imperial Guards commander
- 帷幕 【イバク】 curtain, field staff headquarters, secret meeting place
- 倒幕 【トウバク】 overthrow of the shogunate
Readings
- Korean:
- mag
Spanish
- cortina
- telón
- acto de una obra
- del gobierno shogun
- final
Portuguese
- cortina
- pano p/ decoração
- atuar em peças teatrais
French
- rideaux
- guirlande
- acte (théâtre)
| 989 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 977 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 836 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4026 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1250 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1252 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1989 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1432 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1521 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1157 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 570 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2937 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1509 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2044 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 416 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 9051X | Morohashi |
| 2335 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1578 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 409 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 437 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 967 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1944 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3k10.19 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-10 | SKIP code |
| 2-10-3 | SKIP code |
| 2-7-6 | SKIP code |
| 4422.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-43-75 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5e55 | Unicode hex code |