First opened Sunday, July 19, 2009
黒板
こくばん
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
blackboard
A blackboard is a “black board” — and a native reading says the same with kuro and ita.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
黒板を見なさい。
Look at the blackboard.
黒板に書きますね。
I'll write it on the blackboard.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “黒 (koku, “black”) + 板 (ban, “board”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 黒板 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 黒板 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not こくばん. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
くろいた
- “黒(くろ) (kuro, “black”) + 板(いた) (ita, “board”)”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.