Black

"Black" in Japanese

黒い

kuroi

(absorbing all light)

黒人の

kokujin no

(relating to people with dark skin — see also dark-skinned link= A user suggests that this Translingual entry be cleaned up, giving the reason: “e.g. Dutch: neger (nl) m, negerin (nl) f and German: Schwarzer (de) m, Schwarze (de) f aren't translations of the adjective, but of the noun for which see below.” Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup(+) for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.)

黒色の

kokushoku no

(absorbing all light)

kuro

(colour/color)

黒人

kokujin

(dark-skinned person — see also Negro)

黒色

kokushoku

(colour/color)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.