This character is a little more complicated than its opposite, "white" 白, but can make sense if you break it down. Black is read as "kuro" and written as this:
黒
The top half is these two squished down a bit:
田 (field or paddy)
土 (earth or soil)
I learned this as "If you set a field on fire (my imagining for the four dots on the bottom), what color do you get? Black!"
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