Kanji Detail for 鴉 - "crow, black"

鴉

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

鴉 means "crow, black."
1. Crow - A bird of the family Corvidae.
2. Black - The color black.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

crow; raven

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

crow, raven; Corvus species (various)

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

crow

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

crow; Corvus species (various)

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

The crow. Pure black ones that feed their parents are called 烏. Smaller ones with white on the belly that don't feed their parents are called 鴉. | Black color is called 鴉. As in 鴉鬟 (crow-black hair), 鴉鬢 (crow-black sideburns).
Onyomi

a(ア)
Kunyomi

karasu(からす)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

鳥 (tori・torihen)
Related Keywords

crow black raven bird

三人がつづいて横町へはいると、路ばたの大きい椎の木のこずえから、鴉らしい一羽の鳥がおどろかされたように飛び起った。
As the three men entered the alley, a bird resembling a crow flew from the top of a large beech tree as if it had been frightened.
ひとの声に似た不気味な鳴き声、漆黒の羽、死肉を啄む姿などから、鴉は不幸に舞い降りる不吉な鳥として世界に知られています。
A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as an ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.