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  *黑* | 黑* | *黑
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
HSK 2
dark / darkly / darkness
HSK 4
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  *暗* | 暗* | *暗
dark / to turn dark / secret; hidden / (literary) confused; ignorant
HSK 4
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  *暗* | 暗* | *暗
(literary) to close (a door) / to eclipse / confused; ignorant (variant of ) / dark (variant of )
HSK 4
dark green
HSK 7-9
in the dark / in secret / on the sly / surreptitiously
HSK 7-9
the first light of dawn / (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning
HSK 7-9
dark horse / fig. unexpected winner
HSK 7-9
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  *瞒* | 瞒* | *瞒
to conceal from / to keep (sb) in the dark
HSK 7-9
dim / dark / overcast / darkness / shadow / (fig.) dismal / gloomy / somber / murky / shadowy (side)
HSK 7-9
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  *明* | 明* | *明
bright / opposite: dark / (of meaning) clear / to understand / next / public or open / wise / generic term for a sacrifice to the gods
dark-line spectrum
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  *黎* | 黎* | *黎
(literary) black / dark / many / multitude
bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL: 輪|轮
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  *殷* | 殷* | *殷
dark red
dark; dim
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  *苍* | 苍* | *苍
dark blue / deep green / ash-gray
preserved plum / (esp.) smoked plum; dark plum
a type of clay found in the region of Yixing 宜興|宜兴, used to make Yixing stoneware, with its distinctive russet or dark purple coloring
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  *茜* | 茜* | *茜
(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia) / (bound form) madder red; dark red; alizarin crimson
long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression
dark / dark colored
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  *昙* | 昙* | *昙
dark clouds
hidden details / dirty tricks / dark secrets
dark / hell / netherworld / hades
dark spot or blotch on the skin
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  *杳* | 杳* | *杳
dark and quiet / disappear
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  *昧* | 昧* | *昧
to conceal / dark
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort
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  *黯* | 黯* | *黯
(bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy
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  *绯* | 绯* | *绯
dark red / purple silk
dark green / forest green
curtain of night / gathering darkness
dark and gloomy
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  *褐* | 褐* | *褐
brown / gray or dark color / coarse hemp cloth / Taiwan pr. [he2]
dark red
dark blue
(bird species of China) dark-sided flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica)
dark; dim (light); dull (color); drab / (fig.) gloomy; bleak
dark brown / tawny
dark cloud
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  *缁* | 缁* | *缁
Buddhists / black silk / dark
shade (of a color, i.e. light or dark)
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  *綦* | 綦* | *綦
dark gray / superlative / variegated
to get dark / dusk
lush green / dark green / turquoise
dark reddish purple / Internet slang abbr. for 這樣子|这样子
to grope about in the dark
coal / charcoal / (of skin) darkly pigmented / charcoal (color) / bituminous coal (mining)
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
lit. kept inside a drum (idiom) / fig. completely in the dark
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  *晦* | 晦* | *晦
(bound form) last day of a lunar month / (bound form) dark; gloomy / (literary) night
to renounce the dark and seek the light / to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one
jet-black / dark
dark and moist
pitch-black / pitch-dark
pitch-dark
dark and swarthy
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
dark (weather, mood)
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  *黝* | 黝* | *黝
black / dark green
pitch dark
shady side / dark side
to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark
(literary) dark
dark reddish purple
dark brown
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  *黢* | 黢* | *黢
black / dark
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  *魆* | 魆* | *魆
dim; dark / sudden / surreptitious / Taiwan pr. [xu4]
pitch-black / (fig.) to be completely in the dark
pitch-black / pitch-dark
the hidden and the visible; that which can be seen and that which cannot; darkness and light; night and day; wisdom and ignorance; evil and good; the living and the dead; men and ghosts
pitch-dark / (fig.) completely in the dark; totally ignorant of / (fig.) grim; beyond salvation
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  *黮* | 黮* | *黮
black, dark / unclear / private
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  *暪* | 暪* | *暪
dark
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  *窔* | 窔* | *窔
dark / deep / southeast corner of room
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  *伭* | 伭* | *伭
(literary) cruel; ruthless / (literary) dark red; black
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  *叆* | 叆* | *叆
misty / cloudy sky / dark / obscure
to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom) / diligently attending to official matters
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  *驖* | 驖* | *驖
dark brown horse
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  *黪* | 黪* | *黪
dark / dim / gloomy / bleak
dark red / crimson / also pr. [hong2 yin1 yin1]
pitch-black / pitch-dark
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  *綥* | 綥* | *綥
dark gray / straw sandals
dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye
large house that is dark and labyrinthine
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
dark gray
dark or deep green
dark soy sauce
(lit. and fig.) dark side
Dark Ages
(physics) dark matter
darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc)
dark blue
dark; unlit / a blacklight; an ultraviolet light
dark tea, a variety of fermented tea (e.g. Pu'er tea 普洱茶)
dark green
the dark side (of society etc)
red-orange color / dark orange

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