Entry
  1. Noun

    black mouse; rat with black fur

  2. deceitful employee; unfaithful servant

  3. dark gray; dark grey

Also written 黒ねずみ【くろねずみ】黒ネズミ【くろねずみ】

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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

rat, mouse, dark gray

Kun
ねずみねず
On
ショ
Strokes
13
Radical
rat

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-6-7, 2-5-7SKIP code
0a13.1The Kanji Dictionary
7771.7Four corner code
9f20Unicode hex code
1-33-45JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5417Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
7078New Nelson (John Haig)
2693New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3340Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2065Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2430Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
48390Morohashi
shu3Pinyin reading
seoKorean reading