黒髪

黒 (くろ) (kuro, “black”) + 髪 (かみ) (kami, “hair”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) くろかみ [kùrókámí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • (Tokyo) くろ​かみ [kùróꜜkàmì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝɾo̞ka̠mʲi]

黒髪 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 黑髮, hiragana くろかみ, rōmaji kurokami)

1. black hair

   Hyponyms: 緑の髪, 緑の黒髪, 烏の髪, 濡羽色の髪, 烏羽玉藻, 緑髪, 翠髪, 翠鬟, 翡翠, 翡翠の髪状, 鬒髪

   • 1188, Senzai Wakashū, book 13, poem 803, also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 80:

     長 (なが)からむ心 (こころ)も知 (し)らず黒髪 (くろかみ)の乱 (みだ)れてけさは物 (もの)をこそ思 (おも)へ

     nagakaramu kokoro mo shirazu kurokami no midarete kesa wa mono o koso omohe

     How can I be sure that your heart will never change―with my own feelings as tangled this next morning as my black hair after sleep?[2]

From Middle Chinese 黑髮 (MC hək̚ pʉɐt̚). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) こくはつ [kòkúhátsú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞kɯ̟ᵝha̠t͡sɨᵝ]

黒髪 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 黑髮, hiragana こくはつ, rōmaji kokuhatsu)

1. black hair