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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
black
HSK 2
black tea / CL: , 壺|壶
HSK 3
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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
black cloud
HSK 6
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  *玄* | 玄* | *玄
black / mysterious
HSK 7-9
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery)
HSK 7-9
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
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  *将* | 将* | *将
(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
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  *黛* | 黛* | *黛
umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow
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  *卢* | 卢* | *卢
(old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐 / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
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  *黎* | 黎* | *黎
(literary) black / dark / many / multitude
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
black person / an illegal
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
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  *黦* | 黦* | *黦
yellowish black
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  *玖* | 玖* | *玖
black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
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  *皂* | 皂* | *皂
soap / black
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc) / to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)
black lead / graphite / plumbago
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
(airplane) black box
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)
Black Sea
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  *涅* | 涅* | *涅
(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye) / (literary) to dye black
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
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  *骆* | 骆* | *骆
camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic)
Black Hawk (helicoper)
(bird species of China) black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis)
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
bubonic plague / Black Death
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  *雒* | 雒* | *雒
black horse with white mane / fearful
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
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  *黟* | 黟* | *黟
black and shining ebony
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) / also written 玄狐
cowpea / black-eyed bean
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  *淄* | 淄* | *淄
black / name of a river
black piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go) / (astronomy) sunspot
black bear / coward
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
pitch-black
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel
Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝
(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry
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  *缁* | 缁* | *缁
Buddhists / black silk / dark
(astronomy) black hole
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  *骐* | 骐* | *骐
(literary) black horse
(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
black hair
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
black bear
black armband
black market
Yangshao culture (archaeological period with red and black pottery)
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment
black box / flight recorder / opaque system (computing)
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra)
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
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  *骝* | 骝* | *骝
bay horse with black mane
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple
soot / carbon black
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
black henbane
fiendish / black-hearted
black bean / black bean sauce
jet-black / dark
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
pitch-black / pitch-dark
black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture)
unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黝* | 黝* | *黝
black / dark green
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *骊* | 骊* | *骊
black horse / jet steed / good horse / legendary black dragon
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  *黼* | 黼* | *黼
(archaic) motif of axes with black handles and white heads, a symbol of authority embroidered on ceremonial robes
(written) in black and white
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  *黢* | 黢* | *黢
black / dark
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) / (fig.) official post
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *豇* | 豇* | *豇
cowpeas / black-eyed beans
pitch-black / (fig.) to be completely in the dark
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  *犛* | 犛* | *犛
black ox / yak
pitch-black / pitch-dark
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
deep black
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  *绨* | 绨* | *绨
coarse greenish black pongee
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
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  *黓* | 黓* | *黓
black
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  *黮* | 黮* | *黮
black, dark / unclear / private
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  *黻* | 黻* | *黻
(archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread

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