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 1
JLPT level N4
584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 赤軍 【セキグン】 Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Japanese Red Army, JRA
- 赤外線 【セキガイセン】 infrared rays, infrared radiation
- 七赤 【シチセキ】 seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west)
- 日赤 【ニッセキ】 Japanese Red Cross Society (abbr), Nisseki
- 赤銅 【シャクドウ】 shakudo, gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
- 赤銅色 【シャクドウイロ】 brown, tan
Kun reading compounds
- 赤 【あか】 red, crimson, scarlet, red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange), Red (i.e. communist), red light (traffic), red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red, complete, total, perfect, obvious, copper, red 5-point card
- 銅 【どう】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
- 紅赤 【べにあか】 beniaka, variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh; product of the Kawagoe region, bright red tinged with yellow
- 真赤 【まあか】 bright red, deep red
- 赤い 【あかい】 red, crimson, scarlet, vermilion, Red, communist
- 赤色 【あかいろ】 red, red color (colour), communism, the left
- 赤らむ 【あからむ】 to become red, to redden, to blush
- 赤らめる 【あからめる】 to blush, to redden
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あ、 あこ、 あま
- Korean:
- jeog
Spanish
- rojo
- enrojecer
- enrojecerse
- sonrojarse
Portuguese
- vermelho
French
- rouge
35 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
51 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
46 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
476 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4534 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
275 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
254 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
443 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.2 | Japanese for Busy People |
207 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
207 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
46 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1751 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2719 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1389 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1876 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1759 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
36993 | Morohashi |
2193 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
5840 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1743 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1880 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
406 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
68 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1441 | 2001 Kanji |
3b4.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-3-4 | SKIP code |
4023.1 | Four corner code |
4033.1 | Four corner code |
1-32-54 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
8d64 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 蝙蝠 【コウモリ】 bat (Chiroptera spp.), umbrella, opportunist, turncoat
Kun reading compounds
- 蝙蝠 【こうもり】 bat (Chiroptera spp.), umbrella, opportunist, turncoat
- 蝙蝠蛾 【こうもりが】 swift moth (Hepialidae spp., esp. Endoclita excrescens)
Readings
- Korean:
- pyeon
Spanish
Portuguese
French
4168 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
33271X | Morohashi |
5360 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
6d9.14 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-6-9 | SKIP code |
5312.7 | Four corner code |
1-73-94 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
8759 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
Readings
- Korean:
- bog
Spanish
Portuguese
French
4163 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
33288 | Morohashi |
5353 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
6d9.12 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-6-9 | SKIP code |
5116.6 | Four corner code |
1-73-85 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
8760 | Unicode hex code |