Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
black
Parts:
black
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
573 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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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

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hei1
Korean:
heug

Spanish

  • negro
  • maldad

Portuguese

  • preto

French

  • noir
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)
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

16 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
voiced, uncleanness, wrong, nigori, impurity
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1883 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 濁流 【ダクリュウ】 muddy stream
  • 濁音 【ダクオン】 syllable with a voiced consonant (in Japanese), voiced sound
  • 汚濁 【オダク】 pollution, contamination, corruption, graft
  • 清濁 【セイダク】 good and evil, purity and impurity, voiced and unvoiced consonants
  • 濁酒 【ドブロク】 doburoku (unrefined sake)
  • 濁世 【ダクセ】 this corrupt or degenerate world, this world or life, the world of mankind

Kun reading compounds

  • 濁る 【にごる】 to become muddy, to become cloudy, to become turbid, to become impure (of a liquid or gas), to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.), to become indistinct, to become fuzzy, to become hoarse, to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.), to be corrupted, to be polluted, to become voiced (of a consonant), to be pronounced as a voiced sound
  • 濁す 【にごす】 to make muddy (of a liquid), to make cloudy, to make turbid, to roil, to make ambiguous, to evade (e.g. the point), to be noncommittal about

Readings

Japanese names:
にごり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhuo2
Korean:
tag

Spanish

  • suciedad
  • impureza
  • turbieza
  • ensuciar
  • tergiversar
  • enturbiar
  • ensuciarse
  • enturbiarse

Portuguese

  • sonoro
  • sujidade
  • errado
  • impureza

French

  • troubler
  • consonne sonore (nigori)
  • impureté
  • faux
  • boueux
1558 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1787 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2710 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1749 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1507 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2457 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1625 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1735 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1511 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1255 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
953 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
533 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
695 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
843 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18440 Morohashi
774 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3348 New Nelson (John Haig)
835 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
898 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1836 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
352 2001 Kanji
3a13.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-13 SKIP code
3612.7 Four corner code
1-34-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6fc1 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
village, town
Kun:
むら
On:
ソン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
253 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 村 【ムラ】 village
  • 村議会 【ソンギカイ】 village assembly
  • 町村 【チョウソン】 towns and villages
  • 農村 【ノウソン】 agricultural community, farm village, rural

Kun reading compounds

  • 村 【むら】 village
  • 村長 【そんちょう】 village headman, village mayor
  • 選手村 【せんしゅむら】 Olympic village, athlete's village
  • 隣村 【りんそん】 neighboring village, neighbouring village

Readings

Japanese names:
え、 むた、 ら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cun1
Korean:
chon

Spanish

  • ciudad
  • pueblo

Portuguese

  • cidade
  • aldeia

French

  • village
  • ville
107 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
62 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
52 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
210 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2191 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
154 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
196 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
424 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
191 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
191 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
364 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1073 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1029 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
558 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
738 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
212 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14464 Morohashi
834 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2564 New Nelson (John Haig)
208 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
221 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
241 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
65 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1848 2001 Kanji
4a3.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4490.0 Four corner code
1-34-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6751 Unicode hex code