| | black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing) | HSK 2 |
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| | black | HSK 2 |
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| | black cloud | HSK 6 |
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| | black powder (traditional gunpowder) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) | |
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| | (climatology) black carbon (BC) (light-absorbing carbonaceous particulate matter formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, biomass etc) | |
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| | five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored | |
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| | monochrome photo / black and white picture | |
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| | (airplane) black box | |
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| | green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) | HSK 5 |
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| | entirely different / different as black and white | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dim; dark; murky / black | |
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| | ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (bird species of China) black-winged snowfinch (Montifringilla adamsi) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black-throated sunbird (Aethopyga saturata) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus) | |
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| | (idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable | |
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| | yellowish-black | |
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| | all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice | |
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| | lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times | |
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| | Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan | |
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| | black pepper | |
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| | to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc) / to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc) | |
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| | Hei Hu Quan - "Black Tiger Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | black and white / right and wrong / monochrome | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong | |
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| | Black Forest / Schwarzwald | |
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| | a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance | |
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| | black coffee | |
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| | jet-black / dark | |
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| | not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong | |
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| | black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground) | |
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| | (archaic) a kind of black fish / bad person (Cantonese slang) | |
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| | lit. the black horse of the herd / fig. troublemaker / the black sheep of the family | |
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| | black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson | |
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| | lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong | |
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| | not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong | |
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| | to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious | HSK 7-9 |
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| | black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon | |
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| | covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations | |
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| | reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc) | |
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| | black bean / black bean sauce | |
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| | bushy black hair | |
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| | black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) / (fig.) official post | |
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| | Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / Heixiazi (black blind man) Island | |
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| | contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast | |
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| | black and white TV | |
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| | monochrome / monochromatic / black and white | |
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| | jet-black / pitch-dark | |
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| | black / mysterious | HSK 7-9 |
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| | all crows are black (idiom) / evil people are bad all over the world | |
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| | to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words) | |
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| | black rice; purple rice | |
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| | Black Sea | |
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| | those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment | |
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| | deep black | |
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| | black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson | |
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| | black pigment / melanin | |
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| | black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) | |
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| | lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong | |
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| | black-crowned night heron (Tw) | |
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| | unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea | |
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| | black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) | |
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| | (literary) cruel; ruthless / (literary) dark red; black | |
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| | crow / black | |
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| | (coll.) black person | |
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| | soot / carbon black | |
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| | (bird species of China) black-collared starling (Gracupica nigricollis) | |
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| | to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) / to see through to the nub | |
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| | bluish black / bruise; bruising (CL: 塊|块) | |
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| | fiendish / black-hearted | |
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| | to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels / also written 數黑論黃|数黑论黄 | |
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| | silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) | |
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| | Black Whirlwind, nickname of 李逵, known for his fearsome behavior in combat and his dark complexion | |
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| | lit. black brick kiln / factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor | |
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| | lit. to lose one's black hat / to be sacked from an official post | |
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| | black person / an illegal | |
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| | black coal | |
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| | black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis) | |
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| | reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen) | |
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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | black-crowned night heron (Tw) | |
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| | Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky | |
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| | black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia) | |
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| | eyebrows (with umber black make-up) | |
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| | black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦 | |
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| | black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) | |
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| | pitch-black / pitch-dark | |
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| | black olive (Canarium tramdenum) | |
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| | black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) | |
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| | black lead / graphite / plumbago | |
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| | (astronomy) black hole | |
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| | lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black | |
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| | pitch-black | |
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| | lustrous and black / jet-black | |
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| | the three plain colors used for clothing in the PRC in the 1960s: black, gray and blue | |
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