墨 – black ink, India ink, ink stick

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The kanji 墨 means black ink, India ink, ink stick, Mexico. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ボク (boku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is すみ (sumi). It is written with 14 strokes, under radical 土 (no. 32).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ボク	boku
Kun’yomi	すみ	sumi

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 土 (Kangxi radical 32). Components: 黒・土・里・杰.

Words using 墨

墨すみsumi

Example sentences

墨を染料として使うと面白い模様ができます。

India ink produces an interesting pattern when used as a dye.

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Kanji with the same radical

地場報在増基土境域型均圧壊城執坂

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.