玄 – mysterious, occultness, black

5 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1409 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 玄 means mysterious, occultness, black, deep, profound. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ゲン (gen); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is くろ、くろ.い (kuro, kuroi). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 玄 (no. 95).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ゲン	gen
Kun’yomi	くろ	kuro
Kun’yomi	くろ.い	kuroi

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: 玄 (Kangxi radical 95). Components: 亠・幺.

Words using 玄

玄関げんかんentrance玄人くろうとexpert

Example sentences

トムが玄関にいるのでなかに入るように言ってください。

Tom is at the door. Please ask him in.

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彼は玄人にちかい。

He is almost professional.

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Kanji with the same radical

率

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