玄

玄 — mysterious, occultness, black

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 5
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1409 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: げん gen
Kun'yomi: くろ kuro

くろ.い kuro.i

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 玄

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