黑
hēiTraditional: 黑
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Translation
black, dark
Word origin
A pictograph showing soot blackening around a flame or chimney. From the soot it came to mean the colour black and darkness.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- soot around a flame
Stroke order
黑
Examples
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It is already dark.
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He is wearing black clothes.
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You can see nothing in the dark night.
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She has black hair.
屋。
The room is pitch dark.
黑 (hēi) means black, dark. Beyond the colour it appears in compounds for night, secrecy and the illicit.
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 黑.
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