| 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 junior high
JLPT level N1
1339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 須恵器 【スエキ】 Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era)
- 須義 【スギ】 cobia (Rachycentron canadum), sergeant fish
- 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
- 提宇子 【ダイウス】 God
- 須髯 【シュゼン】 beard
- 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)
Kun reading compounds
- 須らく 【すべからく】 absolutely (ought to), by all means, all, entirely
Readings
- Japanese names:
- もとむ、 ぞ
- Korean:
- su
Spanish
- instante
- desear
- anhelar
- esperar
Portuguese
French
- nécessité
- certainement
- devrait faire
| 936 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1592 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1946 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1544 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2263 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1531 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 700 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 419 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 526 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1734 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 43352 | Morohashi |
| 574 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6618 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1718 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1854 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 3j9.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-9 | SKIP code |
| 2128.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-31-60 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9808 | Unicode hex code |
hump, high, noble, prosperity
- On:
- リュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1109 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 隆盛 【リュウセイ】 prosperity, flourishing, thriving
- 隆起 【リュウキ】 protuberance, bulge, protrusion, projection, swell, rise, uplift, upheaval, elevation
- 興隆 【コウリュウ】 rise, prosperity
- 膨隆 【ボウリュウ】 swelling up
Readings
- Japanese names:
- お、 たか、 たかし
- Korean:
- ryung
Spanish
- montículo
- giba
- alto
- próspero
- floreciente
Portuguese
- corcova
- alto
- nobre
- prosperidade
French
- protubérance
- haut
- noble
- prospérité
| 1901 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1255 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4999 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1193 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1876 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1313 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 946 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 976 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1926 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 741 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 661 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 401 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 498 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1575 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 41720P | Morohashi |
| 545 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6455 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1561 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1682 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1500 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3672 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2d8.6 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 7721.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-46-20 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9686 | Unicode hex code |