玄

Meaning

玄 centers on what is dark, deep, and beyond ordinary understanding: the mysterious, the occult, and the profound. The color black is a natural extension of this deep, hidden quality.

• 玄関げんかん
  N5

  entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule; porch; foyer; mud room

• 玄米げんまい

  unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice

• 玄人くろうと
  N1

  expert; professional; master; connoisseur

• 玄武げんぶ

  Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens)

• 幽玄ゆうげん

  mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound; yūgen

• 玄孫げんそん

  great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant

• 表玄関おもてげんかん

  front door; vestibule

• 玄武岩げんぶがん

  basalt; whin(stone)

• 信玄袋しんげんぶくろ

  cloth bag

• 信玄餅しんげんもち

  shingen mochi (sweet made by Kinseiken)

• 内玄関うちげんかん

  side entrance

• 天地玄黄てんちげんこう

  heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth

• 正面玄関しょうめんげんかん

  front entrance; front door

• 玄そばげんそば

  buckwheat with the husk intact

• 玄人はだしくろうとはだし

  outdoing a professional; putting an expert to shame

• 玄人気質くろうとかたぎ

  professionalism; the temperament of a professional

• 玄人筋くろうとすじ

  professionals

• 玄兎げんと

  moon

• 玄冥げんめい

  ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)

• 玄冬げんとう

  winter

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