| 1700 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1789 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2649 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1496 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1853 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1427 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1516 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1159 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1236 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 804 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 469 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 598 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 235 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 18149X | Morohashi |
| 655 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3268 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 230 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 245 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1641 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
vague, obscure, desert, wide
- On:
- バク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1611 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 漠 【バク】 vague, obscure, vast, boundless
- 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
- 冥漠 【メイバク】 dim and distant
- 空漠 【クウバク】 vast, boundless, vague
Readings
- Korean:
- mag
Spanish
- vago
- incierto
- vacío
- desierto
Portuguese
- vago
- obscurecer
- deserto
- vasto
French
- vague
- obscur
- désert
- vaste
| 363 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3a10.18 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-10 | SKIP code |
| 3413.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-39-89 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6f20 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
401 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 然 【ゼン】 -like
- 然諾 【ゼンダク】 consent, saying yes
- 必然 【ヒツゼン】 inevitable, necessary, certain, sure, inevitability, necessity
- 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
- 寂然 【セキゼン】 lonely, desolate, forlornness, desolation
- 自然 【ジネン】 occurring naturally (without human influence)
Kun reading compounds
- 然 【しか】 like that, as such, yeah, uh-huh
- 然し 【しかし】 however, but
- 然り 【しかり】 yes, yea, aye, affirmative, to be so
- 然し 【しかし】 however, but
- 而して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
- 然 【さ】 so, like that, in that way
- 然らば 【さらば】 farewell, goodbye, adieu, if so, in that case, then, and (then)
- 然然 【ささ】 such and such
Readings
- Korean:
- yeon
Spanish
- de esa forma
- en ese caso
Portuguese
- Tipos de objetos
- assim
- se assim
- naquele caso
- bem
French
- un certain
- si c'est comme ça
- dans ce cas
- suffixe adverbial
| 450 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 557 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 528 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 375 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2770 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 437 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 716 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1788 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 651 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 662 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 401 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1279 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3456 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1779 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2423 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 246 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 19149 | Morohashi |
| 2782 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3435 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 241 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 256 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 144 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 592 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2540 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4d8.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-8-4 | SKIP code |
| 2333.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-33-19 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7136 | Unicode hex code |