黑

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Han character[edit]

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Radical 203 黑

黑 (radical 203 黑+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田土火 (WGF), four-corner 60331)

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1518, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48038
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2051, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4743, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9ED1

Chinese[edit]

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simp. and trad.
 黑

Glyph origin[edit]

Pictogram (象形) – catching soot in a container over a fire (火, 灬).

黑 黑 黑 黑
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak. Cognate with 墨 ("ink").

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (黑, reconstructed)
Character (黑), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 曉 (32)
Final: 德
Division: I

Openness: Open
Tone: Checked (Ø)

 Fanqie: 呼北切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/hək̚/ /xək̚/ /xək̚/ /hək̚/ /hək̚/ /xək̚/ /xək̚/
Old Chinese pronunciation (黑, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
黑 hēi ‹ xok › /*m̥ ˤək (dialect *m̥ ˤ- > xˤ-)/ black

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
黑 5109 黑 職 0 黑 /*hmlɯːɡ/

Definitions[edit]

黑

  1. black
    她戴著黑帽子。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Tā dài zhe hēi màozǐ. [Pinyin]
    She's wearing a black hat.
  2. dark; darkness
    這麼黑，我看不見。 [MSC, trad.]
    这么黑，我看不见。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhème hēi, wǒ kàn bù jiàn. [Pinyin]
    It's so dark; I can't see.
    她很怕黑。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Tā hěn pà hēi. [Pinyin]
    She is very afraid of the dark.
  3. evening; night
  4. illegal; clandestine; secret; shady
    昨天他們在公園開了個黑會。 [MSC, trad.]
    昨天他们在公园开了个黑会。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zuótiān tāmen zài gōngyuán kāi le ge hēi huì. [Pinyin]
    They had a clandestine meeting in the park yesterday.
  5. sinister; evil
  6. (computing) (loanword) to hack
    你可以黑掉亨德森辦公室的電腦嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
    你可以黑掉亨德森办公室的电脑吗？ [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ kěyǐ hēi diào Hēngdésēn bàngōngshì de diànnǎo ma? [Pinyin]
    Can you hack into Henderson's office computer?
  7. Abbreviation for 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Heilongjiang province).

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Derived terms

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
黑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黒)

  1. black

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Khitan[edit]

Noun[edit]

黑 (kara)

  1. west

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

黑 (heuk) (hangeul 흑, McCune-Reischauer hŭk, Yale huk)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

黑 (hắc)

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