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黒い くろい N5

  1. black
  2. blackish; dark; sun-tanned (skin)
  3. criminal; illicit; suspicious
  4. covered in dirt; darkened and dirty; sooty
  5. black-hearted; evil; wicked
  6. ill-boding; inauspicious; unlucky

黒い霧 くろいきり

  1. black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.; thick fog (of suspicion)

黒いんげん豆 くろいんげんまめ

  1. black bean; black turtle bean

黒い九月 くろいくがつ

  1. Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)

黒い目 くろいめ

  1. observant eye

黒い雨 くろいあめ

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

黒い雨 くろいあめ

  1. Black Rain (1966 novel by Ibuse Masuji)

浅黒い あさぐろい

  1. dark (skin, complexion, etc.); swarthy; tanned

腹黒い はらぐろい

  1. black-hearted; malicious; mean; scheming; wicked

青黒い あおぐろい

  1. black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black
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