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Kanji Grade 2 - 黒

Kanji character Grade 2 黒. Writing practice along with onyomi and kunyomi readings.

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Kanji Grade 2 - 黒
About
black
Kun: くろ、 くろ.ずむ、 くろ.い
On: コク
11 strokes
Radical: black 黑
Parts: 杰 里 黒
 
Onyomi
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)
 
Kunyomi
黒 【くろ】 black, black go 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
黒い霧 【くろいきり】 thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.