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

Speed

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

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

11 strokes
Radical:
pig
Parts:
Variants:
pork, pig
Kun:
ぶた
On:
トン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1864 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 豚 【トン】 pig, pork
  • 豚肉 【ブタニク】 pork
  • 養豚 【ヨウトン】 pig-keeping, pig farming
  • 焼きとん 【ヤキトン】 yakiton, grilled pork on skewers

Kun reading compounds

  • 豚 【ぶた】 pig (Sus scrofa domesticus), pork, fatso, fatty
  • 豚肉 【ぶたにく】 pork
  • 野生豚 【やせいぶた】 feral pig
  • 萌え豚 【もえぶた】 anime freak, person overly interested in female anime and video game characters

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tun2
Korean:
don

Spanish

  • cochino
  • cerdo

Portuguese

  • Carne de porco
  • porco

French

  • porc
  • cochon
1670 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1557 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3772 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1738 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1774 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
796 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
810 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1089 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1717 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1228 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
666 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
889 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
544 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36352 Morohashi
976 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5743 New Nelson (John Haig)
538 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
577 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1486 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3951 2001 Kanji
4b7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-7 SKIP code
7123.2 Four corner code
1-38-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c5a Unicode hex code