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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黑* | 黑* | *黑
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
HSK 2
black tea / CL: , 壺|壶
HSK 3
black
HSK 2
black cloud
HSK 6
black powder (traditional gunpowder)
(bird species of China) black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni)
(climatology) black carbon (BC) (light-absorbing carbonaceous particulate matter formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, biomass etc)
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
monochrome photo / black and white picture
(airplane) black box
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
dim; dark; murky / black
ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery)
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) black-winged snowfinch (Montifringilla adamsi)
(bird species of China) black-throated sunbird (Aethopyga saturata)
(bird species of China) black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黗* | 黗* | *黗
yellowish-black
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan
black pepper
to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc) / to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)
Hei Hu Quan - "Black Tiger Fist" - Martial Art
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
Black Forest / Schwarzwald
a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance
black coffee
jet-black / dark
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鰦* | 鰦* | *鰦
(archaic) a kind of black fish / bad person (Cantonese slang)
lit. the black horse of the herd / fig. troublemaker / the black sheep of the family
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
black bean / black bean sauce
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黰* | 黰* | *黰
bushy black hair
black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) / (fig.) official post
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / Heixiazi (black blind man) Island
contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
black and white TV
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
jet-black / pitch-dark
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *玄* | 玄* | *玄
black / mysterious
HSK 7-9
all crows are black (idiom) / evil people are bad all over the world
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 rice; purple rice
Black Sea
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment
deep black
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
black pigment / melanin
black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
(bird species of China) black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
black-crowned night heron (Tw)
unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伭* | 伭* | *伭
(literary) cruel; ruthless / (literary) dark red; black
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乌* | 乌* | *乌
crow / black
(coll.) black person
soot / carbon black
(bird species of China) black-collared starling (Gracupica nigricollis)
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
bluish black / bruise; bruising (CL:塊|块)
fiendish / black-hearted
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
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)
Black Whirlwind, nickname of 李逵, known for his fearsome behavior in combat and his dark complexion
lit. black brick kiln / factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor
lit. to lose one's black hat / to be sacked from an official post
black person / an illegal
black coal
black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture)
(bird species of China) black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis)
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
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
black-crowned night heron (Tw)
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
eyebrows (with umber black make-up)
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
(bird species of China) black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
pitch-black / pitch-dark
black olive (Canarium tramdenum)
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
black lead / graphite / plumbago
(astronomy) black hole
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black
pitch-black
lustrous and black / jet-black
the three plain colors used for clothing in the PRC in the 1960s: black, gray and blue

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