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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
(computing) (loanword) hacker
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
dirty money
unrefined sugar / brown sugar
dark road / unlawful activities (contrasted with 白道) / the underworld; criminal gangs
black person / an illegal
(astronomy) black hole
(bird species of China) black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
bunch of gangsters / criminal gang / organized crime syndicate
blacklist
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
hidden details / dirty tricks / dark secrets
shadow / darkness / twilight
black hair
(bird species of China) black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
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
black pigment / melanin
(Internet slang) (loanword) hate
mafia
oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth
(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
pitch-dark
pupil of the eye
clarinet
dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
black / dark / dusky / indistinct
coal / charcoal / (of skin) darkly pigmented / charcoal (color) / bituminous coal (mining)
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
blackcurrant
Heishan county in Jinzhou 錦州|锦州, Liaoning
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
black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture)
sable (Martes zibellina)
Aedes, a genus of mosquito
pitch-dark
common chimpanzee
blackmail
(airplane) black box
pitch-black / pitch-dark
black bear
black box / fig. system whose internal structure is unknown
pitch dark / also written 黑燈瞎火|黑灯瞎火
dark and swarthy
variant of 黑糊糊
blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)
ruins of Heishui Town of Xixia 西夏 people, in Ejin Banner 額濟納旗|额济纳旗, Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia
(bird species of China) black bulbul (Hypsipetes leucocephalus)
vinyl
Black Lives Matter (social movement)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
to blacken / (slang) to undergo a transformation to a malevolent personality (often, precipitated by intense psychological stress)
obsidian (mining)
mole
pitch-black / pitch-dark
Pinot noir (grape type)
(slang) anti-fan
Black Friday

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