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

8 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
frame, framework, spindle, spool, bounding-box, (kokuji)
Kun:
わく
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
922 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 枠 【わく】 frame, framework, border, box, limit, restriction, quota, category, bracket, class, time slot (in a broadcasting schedule), stream, livestream, live stream, live (online) broadcast, spool (of thread), reel
  • 枠外 【わくがい】 (beyond the) limits, scope, boundary
  • 型枠 【かたわく】 formwork, shuttering, mold, mould, form
  • 鋼枠 【こうわく】 steel formwork, steel sets

Readings

Spanish

  • marco
  • armazón
  • rango
  • alcance

Portuguese

  • moldura
  • estrutura
  • carretel
  • cilindro

French

  • cadre
  • structure
  • bobine
  • bounding box (graph.)
  • (kokuji)
1943 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2047 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2205 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1421 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1907 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2079 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
510 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1082 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1077 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
582 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
771 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
204 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14576 Morohashi
866 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2585 New Nelson (John Haig)
200 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
212 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1855 2001 Kanji
4a4.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4494.1 Four corner code
1-47-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67a0 Unicode hex code