ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blacken (something); to make something black
• to talk wrong into right

noun:

• Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) ➜ 本マグロ【ほんマグロ】

noun / ~する noun:

• moving into the black; becoming profitable

noun:

• Rubus mesogaeus (species of blackberry)

noun:

• black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice
• charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables

noun:

• ability that outdoes (shames) professionals

expression / noun:

• heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)

noun:

• crotch (of clothing)

noun:

• blackness; deep black

noun:

• Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)

noun:

• gray bunting; grey bunting

noun:

• black rust

noun / ~の noun:

• charring; something charred

noun:

• traditional medicine made from charred ingredients

godan ~く verb:

• to go through all sorts of hardships

noun:

• black soybean

noun:

• black quartz

noun:

• black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)

noun:

• charring; something charred

noun:

• dark-skinned person; well-tanned person - derogatory term ➜ 白んぼ
• (wheat) smut
• stagehand (in kabuki); prompter ➜ 黒衣【くろご】

noun:

• black hood

noun:

• Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis)

noun:

• southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

~の noun / noun:

• charred; burnt black; scorched black

noun:

• black cataract; amaurosis

noun:

• biotite; black or green mica