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黒

11 strokes
Radical:
black 黑
Parts:
杰 里 黒
black
Kun:
くろ、 くろ.ずむ、 くろ.い
On:
コク
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

禿

7 strokes
Radical:
grain 禾
Parts:
儿 禾
become bald, bare, wear out, waste away, little girl employed at a brothel
Kun:
ちび.る、 かむろ、 は.げる、 はげ
On:
トク

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On reading compounds

  • 禿瘡 【トクソウ】 alopecia areata
  • 禿げ頭 【ハゲアタマ】 bald head, baldness
  • 愚禿 【グトク】 I, me

Kun reading compounds

  • 禿びる 【ちびる】 to get blunt, to dull, to wear out
  • 禿 【かぶろ】 children's hairstyle of short untied hair, child with short untied hair, young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period), baldness, bald head
  • 禿げる 【はげる】 to lose hair, to become bald, to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
  • 禿 【はげ】 baldness, bald head, bald person, baldy, idiot, moron
  • 禿げる 【はげる】 to lose hair, to become bald, to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
  • 若ハゲ 【わかハゲ】 premature baldness
  • 丸禿 【まるはげ】 complete baldness

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tu1
Korean:
dog

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3262 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
496 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
24910 Morohashi
4122 New Nelson (John Haig)
2606 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2652 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
5d2.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-2 SKIP code
2021.7 Four corner code
1-38-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
79bf Unicode hex code

鷲

23 strokes
Radical:
bird 鳥
Parts:
丶 亠 口 小 尢 杰 尤 鳥
eagle
Kun:
わし
On:
シュウ、 ジュ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1925 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 鷲 【わし】 eagle (Accipitridae family)
  • 鷲座 【わしざ】 Aquila (constellation), the Eagle
  • 蛇食鷲 【へびくいわし】 secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius), secretary bird
  • 白頭鷲 【はくとうわし】 bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Readings

Japanese names:
す、 わ、 わせ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiu4
Korean:
chwi

Spanish

  • águila

Portuguese

French

5368 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2980 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3598 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2514 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
47345 Morohashi
7004 New Nelson (John Haig)
2834 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2849 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11b12.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-12-11 SKIP code
0332.7 Four corner code
1-47-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9df2 Unicode hex code