Kanji
N4 11 strokes Grade 2 freq #573

black

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

black kuro

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

black person
Black Sea
graphite
black smoke
blackboard
central pillar (of a building)
darkness
black clothes

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

(being in) the black; surplus
black
black spot; black dot
unbarked lumber
black
black and white; monochrome
dark; blackish
Kuroshio Current; Japan Current
black (colour, color)
black curtain

Example sentences

Despite a large surplus in merchandise trade, the current account surplus is not so big due to a deficit in invisible trade.

Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.

In reality black is not a color; it is the absence of color.

I have a black and a white coat.