| 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 3
JLPT level N2
1307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 炭素 【タンソ】 carbon (C)
- 炭鉱 【タンコウ】 coal mine, (coal) pit, colliery, coal-mine shaft
- 木炭 【モクタン】 charcoal
- 活性炭 【カッセイタン】 activated charcoal, activated carbon
Kun reading compounds
- 炭 【すみ】 charcoal, charred remains
- 炭火 【すみび】 charcoal fire
- 正炭 【しょうすみ】 first adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony)
- 竹炭 【たけすみ】 bamboo charcoal
Readings
- Korean:
- tan
Spanish
- carbón vegetal
- carbón
Portuguese
- carvão
French
- charbon de bois
- charbon
| 274 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 361 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 341 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1007 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1418 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 842 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 713 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1186 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1344 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1427 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 875 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1267 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2806 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1445 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1947 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 778 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 18953 | Morohashi |
| 2257 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3413 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 771 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 833 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 337 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1262 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3o6.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-6 | SKIP code |
| 3-5-4 | SKIP code |
| 2228.9 | Four corner code |
| 1-35-26 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 70ad | Unicode hex code |