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Kanji Detail for 玄 - "black, profound"

玄

  • Meaning

    玄 means "black, profound." Also associated with distant.

    1. Black - A dark color; reddish-black; dark.

    2. Profound - Deep; mysterious.

    3. Distant - Faint and far; remote.

    4. Heaven - The color of the sky.

    5. North - The northern direction.

  • Words using 玄

    • 玄関 げんかん Listen entrance; front door; entryway
    • 玄米 げんまい Listen unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
    • 玄人 くろうと Listen expert; professional; master

  • Four-character idioms with 玄

    • 天地玄黄 てんちげんこう Listen heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth

  • Tattoo check: 玄

    • Verified meaning: black, profound
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read くろう, げん, げんじ, げんそう)
    • Also carries these associations: distant

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 玄

    Given names 玄(しずか)Listen 玄(はじめ)Listen 玄(はるか)Listen 玄(ひかる)Listen 玄(ひろし)Listen

    Surnames 玄(くろう)Listen 玄(げん)Listen 玄(げんじ)Listen 玄(げんそう)Listen 玄(さちみ)Listen 玄(たかし)Listen 玄(ひょん)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    mysterious; occultness; black; deep; profound

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    deep, profound, abstruse; Kangxi radical 95

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    black; mysterious

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    deep, profound, abstruse

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Black color. Black without luster is colloquially called 玄色. | Deep and profound principles are called 玄. The world also calls Daoist studies 玄學. | A great-grandson's son is called 玄孫 (great-great-grandson). Seen in (Erya). | [Character analysis] During Qing to avoid the taboo name of Emperor Shengzu Xuanye, it was abbreviated as 玄 or written as 元.

  • Onyomi

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    gen(ゲン) ゲン

  • Kunyomi

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    kuro(くろ) くろ

    kuro.i(くろ-い) くろ-い

  • Strokes

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    5 strokes

  • Radical

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    玄 (gen)

  • Related Keywords

    black profound distant deep mysterious heaven north dark esoteric enigma abstruse cryptic hidden inscrutable murky mystical obscure opaque bottomless celestial far color

Sentences including 玄

  • Bill , answer the door.

  • He saw a dog near the door.

  • I went up to the front door.

  • There is a strange man at the door.

  • Someone is at the front door.

  • The front door was open.

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