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Kanji VocabularyJLPT N1 › 黎

黎 — Dark

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary school#2335 most used
dark, black, many
On’yomiレイ (rei)
On’yomi (ri)
Kun’yomiくろ (kuroi)

Stroke order (15 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 黎

WordReadingMeaning
黎明れいめい
reimei
daybreak; dawn; gray of the morning (grey)

Study notes

黎 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 15 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2335 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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