黒

See also 黑, and 里

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	黒
simplified	黑
traditional	黑

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 黑, replacing two dots with one stroke. Compare 毋 (from 母).

Graphically 里 + 灬 (“fire”), and bottom is cognate to 灬.

Han character

黒 (radical 203 黑+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田土火 (WGF), X田土火 (XWGF))

1. black
2. dark
3. evil

Usage notes

In some Japanese shinjitai simplifications, 黒 is split into 里 and 灬 (on the bottom of the character), such as 黙 (from 默), and the 里 component may disappear, as in 点 (from 點).

See also

• 里

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1518, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48040
• Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 7, page 4743, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9ED2

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Japanese

Kanji

黒 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こく (koku)
• Kun: くろい (kuroi), くろ (kuro)

Compounds

黒色 黒点 黒板 (こくばん, kokuban, “blackboard”)

暗黒 (あんこく, ankoku, “darkness”) 漆黒 白黒

Noun

黒 (hiragana くろ, romaji kuro)

1. black
2. the guilty one

Related terms

• 黒い(くろい, kuroi)

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Korean

Hanja

黒 (hangeul 흑, revised heuk, McCune-Reischauer hŭk, Yale huk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

黒 (pinyin dǎn (dan3), hēi (hei1), Wade-Giles tan³, hei¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

黒 (hắc)