Practice JLPTMeaning
黒子 (ほくろ, hokuro) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “birthmark; mole”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
彼女は 額にほくろがあります
She has a mole on her forehead.
マリリン・モンローのほくろってセクシーだよね。
Marilyn Monroe's mole is sexy, isn't it?
黒子（くろこ）は誤用。
Kuroko is a misuse of kurogo.
このほくろに 悩んでいます。
I'm troubled by this mole.
あの 人は 眼の 横にほくろがある。
That person has a mole at the side of his eye.
その 遺体の 身元は 頬のほくろで 確認された。
The dead body was identified by a mole on the cheek.
表生地／底生地に紺や黒の生地を使用し舞台の黒子が動いたときに白い部分が目立たないようなものも有る。
With dark blue cloth used for the surface part and black cloth for the sole part, the tabi of this kind are used by the stage assistants dressed in black on stages so that the tabi (usually white) do not stand out when the kuroko moves.
伴右衛門の座敷を抜けてきたという小万の幸八が連れ帰ろうとして腕を取ると、小万の二の腕には「五大切」という入れ黒子（刺青）がみえる。
Kohachi, explaining that in fact Koman sneaked out of Banemon's party, takes her arm to bring her back, then the tattoo 'Go-taisetsu
仁木弾正は、松本幸四郎(5代目)が当り役にしており、弾正の頬の黒子と衣装の花菱の紋は、五代目が実際にあった黒子と幸四郎の家紋とに敬意を表してつけられたものである。
Koshiro MATSUMOTO (the fifth) was a star actor for Danjo NIKKI, so that paying respects to him, Danjo has a mole on his chin just as Koshiro (the fifth) had, and wears a costume with the crest of Hanabishi (rhombic flower) derived from his Kamon (family crest).
彼は黒子に徹して私を支えてくれた. He supported me, but always from behind the scenes.大奥では、乳母は黒子のように覆面をして授乳する奇習があった。
There was a peculiar custom that a wet nurse would put on a mask such as a kuroko (stage assistants dressed in black for concealment) when breast-feeding a baby in O-oku.
五大切' (literally 'Go, precious' which means 'I love Go') on her upper arm is seen.小万が頑なのを、何か理由があるのだろうと尋ねる伴右衛門に、伊之助が、小万には源五兵衛という相手がいると打ち明け、小万は腕の入れ黒子をみせる。
Banemon asks her reasons for stubbornly refusing, so Inosuke explains that Koman is, in fact, in love with a man called Gengobe, and Koman shows the tattoo on her arm.