Entry
  1. Noun

    black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853

    Historical term

  2. foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

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Characters in this word

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black

Kun
くろくろ.ずむくろ.い
On
コク
Strokes
11
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
573 of 2500
Radical
black
WaniKani
Level 7

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
2-7-4SKIP code
4d7.2The Kanji Dictionary
6033.1Four corner code
3640deroo
9ed2Unicode hex code
1-25-85JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5403Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
7052New Nelson (John Haig)
2740New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3406Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1754Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2388Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
174Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
186Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
317A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1486Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
286Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
48040Morohashi
124A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
206Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
206Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80sakade
284Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
137henshall3
204Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
45Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.14busy_people
1940Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
176Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
hei1Pinyin reading
heugKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
7WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

ship, boat

Kun
ふねふな-
On
セン
Strokes
11
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N3
Frequency
713 of 2500
Radical
boat
WaniKani
Level 7

Built from

Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-6-5SKIP code
6c5.4The Kanji Dictionary
2846.0Four corner code
877deroo
8239Unicode hex code
1-33-05JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3873Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4939New Nelson (John Haig)
1341New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1700Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
906Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1229Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1874Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2019Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
313A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1391Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
314Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
30407Morohashi
158A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
376Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
377Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
266sakade
860Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
175henshall3
208Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
647Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1595Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1892Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
chuan2Pinyin reading
seonKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
7WaniKani level