灰

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 又 (“hand”) + 火 (“fire”) – fire that can be touched with the hand (ash). Note that the hand 又 has moved so it resembles 厂; compare shape in 左/右.

Han character

灰 (radical 86 火+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大火 (KF), four-corner 7128₉)

1. ashes
2. dust
3. lime, mortar
4. gray
5. dirty
6. disheartened

See also

• 炭

References

• KangXi: page 665, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18859
• Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2188, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7070

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Cantonese

Hanzi

灰 (Yale fui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

灰 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かい (kai)
• Kun: はい (hai)

Noun

灰 (hiragana はい, romaji hai)

1. ash

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Korean

Hanja

灰 (hangeul 회, revised hoe, McCune-Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

灰 (pinyin huī (hui1), Wade-Giles hui¹)

1. ashes
2. dust
3. lime, mortar
4. gray
5. dirty
6. disheartened

Compounds

• 灰暗
• 灰白
• 灰不喇唧，灰布喇唧的
• 灰不溜丢
• 灰不溜秋
• 灰尘
• 灰飞烟灭·灰飛煙滅
• 灰烬·灰燼
• 灰锰氧
• 灰色
• 灰鼠
• 灰头土脸儿
• 灰心
• 灰塵

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Middle Chinese

Han character

灰 (*xuəi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

灰 (hôi, hoi, khôi, vôi, hui)