| 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 2
JLPT level N4
986 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 肉 【ニク】 flesh, meat, flesh (of a fruit), pulp, the physical body (as opposed to the spirit), flesh, thickness, content, substance, flesh, ink pad
- 肉親 【ニクシン】 blood relationship, blood relative
- 食肉 【ショクニク】 meat (for consumption)
- 中肉 【チュウニク】 medium build, meat of medium quality
Kun reading compounds
- 肉 【しし】 flesh (esp. of an animal), meat
- 肉合い 【ししあい】 fleshiness, plumpness
- 鹿 【かのしし】 venison, deer
- 脯 【ほしし】 dried meat, jerky
Readings
- Korean:
- yug, yu
Spanish
- carne
Portuguese
- carne
French
- chair
- viande
| 297 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 209 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 365 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 779 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3724 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 533 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 241 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2.1 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 223 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 223 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 561 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1010 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3966 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2042 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2756 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1031 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 29236 | Morohashi |
| 3200 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4753 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1022 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1098 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 134 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1653 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2a4.20 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-4-2 | SKIP code |
| 4-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 3-2-4 | SKIP code |
| 4022.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-38-89 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8089 | Unicode hex code |