Meaning: black
Reading: コク、くろ（ぐろ）
黒衣（コクイ）: black clothes
黒板（コクバン）: a blackboard, a chalkboard
暗黒（アンコク）: darkness, blackness
大黒柱（ダイコクばしら）: the central pillar, a breadwinner
黒（くろ）: black (noun)
黒（くろ）い; black (i-adjective)
黒字（くろじ）: a black letter, a (trade) surplus
黒星（くろぼし）: a black mark, a defeat
黒幕（くろマク）: a black curtain, a backstage manipulator
腹黒（はらぐろ）い: scheming, malicious
The current #黒 has 11 strokes but its radical 黑 has 12 strokes. 黒 used to be an informal variant of 黑.
If a country village （里） is on fire （れっか – 灬）, everything will be “black”!
If a country village （里） is on fire （れっか – 灬）, everything will be “black”!
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