Keyword
dark and mysterious
Info
FrequencyTop 1100-1200
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig1484
Readings
げん
(96%)
くろ
(1%)
Composed of
lid
thread spool
Mnemonic

A dark and mysterious figure as seen from the back, with a lid on his head and a threaded cloak that hides most of his body.

Used in kanji (10 in total)
mutter
ratio
dazzling
livestock
Used in vocabulary (52 in total)
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
entrance; front door
front entrance; front door
entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound; yūgen
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
front door; vestibule
abstruse; occult; mysterious
burial chamber
doorkeeper; doorman; porter
sledgehammer
great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant
tea (with roasted rice)
basalt; whin(stone)
refusing to see a visitor
ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
germinated brown rice; sprouted brown rice
day of the boar in the tenth month; mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)
steamed bread made with unpolished rice flour
sledgehammer
Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth
hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people
ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
unpolished wheat or barley
ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice; black rice
ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis)
type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)
professionalism; the temperament of a professional
The Agency for Buddhists and Foreigners (ritsuryo system)
unpolished rice powder; brown rice flour
koso genmai; fermented brown rice
Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)
Rhododendron mucronulatum var. ciliatum (variety of azalea)
Examples (24 in total)
The front door was open.
I felt the cold wind come into the hall.
Let's take off our shoes at the entrance.