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

19 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
fog, mist
Kun:
きり
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1747 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 霧化 【ムカ】 atomization
  • 霧虹 【キリニジ】 fog bow, fogbow, mistbow, white rainbow
  • 夕霧 【ユウギリ】 evening mist
  • 海霧 【カイム】 sea fog
  • 蓮霧 【レンブ】 wax apple (Syzygium samarangense), Java apple

Kun reading compounds

  • 霧 【きり】 fog, mist, spray
  • 霧雨 【きりさめ】 drizzle, light rain
  • 黒い霧 【くろいきり】 thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
  • 雲霧 【うんむ】 clouds and fog

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu4
Korean:
mu

Spanish

  • niebla
  • neblina

Portuguese

  • nevoeiro
  • névoa
  • neblina

French

  • brouillard
  • brume
1845 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1088 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5065 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1038 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1893 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2846 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
950 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
980 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1869 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3493 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1802 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2452 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1236 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42418 Morohashi
2817 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6545 New Nelson (John Haig)
1228 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1314 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1924 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3145 2001 Kanji
8d11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-11 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-44-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9727 Unicode hex code