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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
HSK 2
blackboard / CL: 塊|块, 個|个
HSK 2
dark / darkly / darkness
HSK 4
night
HSK 6
dark horse / fig. unexpected winner
HSK 7-9
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
(fig.) malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes / hidden hand / (Tw) mechanic / blue-collar worker / manual laborer
HSK 7-9
hacker (computing) (loanword)
HSK 7-9
ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery)
HSK 7-9
dark spot or blotch on the skin
Heishui County (Tibetan: khro chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan
(bird species of China) greater necklaced laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黑* | 黑* | *黑
abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江
to crack down on illegal activities / to fight organized crime
Tehran, capital of Iran
dirty money
unrefined sugar / brown sugar
all crows are black (idiom) / evil people are bad all over the world
dark; dim
dark road / unlawful activities (contrasted with 白道) / the underworld; criminal gangs
black person / an illegal
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)
(astronomy) black hole
(bird species of China) black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
gang-related
bunch of gangsters / criminal gang / organized crime syndicate
blacklist
pitch-black
to get dark / dusk
Serbia and Montenegro (after break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992)
black market
lit. inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. a scam / protection racket / daylight robbery
criminal underworld / organized crime syndicate
black armband
see 黑龍江省|黑龙江省 / Heilong River or Amur River, forming the border between northeast China and Russia
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
hidden details / dirty tricks / dark secrets
shadow / darkness / twilight
sunspot
black hair
jet-black / dark
Heilongjiang Province, capital Harbin 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市 (abbr. to )
Kuroshio current
stern or displeased expression; to show such an expression
pitch-dark / (fig.) completely in the dark; totally ignorant of / (fig.) grim; beyond salvation
black pigment / melanin
(Internet slang) hate (loanword)
mafia
pitch-black / (fig.) to be completely in the dark
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth
(written) in black and white
(lit. and fig.) dark side
rye (Secale cereale)
blackboard bulletin with short news items written on it (can usually be found in factories, schools etc)
argot / bandits' secret jargon / malicious words
poison pen letter (Tw)
black piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go) / (astronomy) sunspot
(slang) hater; detractor
Dark Ages
Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director
black and white TV
obsidian (mining)
can't tell black from white (idiom); unable to distinguish wrong from right
Auricularia auricula-judae, an edible fungus
Heishui County (Tibetan: khro chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan
Black Sea
night; nightfall
Heihe, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
pitch dark
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
pitch-dark
pupil of the eye
clarinet
dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
dark / black / suntanned
black / dark / dusky / indistinct
coal / charcoal / (of skin) darkly pigmented / charcoal (color) / bituminous coal (mining)
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
jet-black / pitch-dark
blackcurrant
Heishan county in Jinzhou 錦州|锦州, Liaoning
to grope about in the dark
Black Flag Army
poison pen letter
bubonic plague / Black Death
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
dim; dark; murky / black
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment
Diablo (video game series)
glossy black
(dialect) dusk
black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture)
soot / carbon black
sable (Martes zibellina)

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