"Black" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 qīng green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
 hēi black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
 hēi sè black
 yǒu hēi dark / black / suntanned
 hēi hū hū black / dark / dusky / indistinct
 wū crow / black
 lí (literary) black / dark / many / multitude
 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
 xuán black / mysterious
 zào soap / black
 yǒu black / dark green
 zī black / name of a river
 qū black / dark
 xū black / see 黑魖魖[hei1 xu1 xu1]
 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
 yūn dǎo to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
 hēi rén black person / an illegal
 hēi dòng (astronomy) black hole
 wū yún black cloud
 jié rán bù tóng entirely different / different as black and white
 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
 qīng yī black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦[zheng4 dan4]
 hóng chá black tea / CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
 hēi fà black hair
 dān sè monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
 hēi yǎn quān dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye
 wū lóng black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon
 hēi xīn ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery)
 shí mò black lead / graphite / plumbago
 hēi sè sù black pigment / melanin
 hēi xióng Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
 zǐ zhú black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra)
 qīng sī fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
 gǒu xióng black bear / coward
 yín hú silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) / also written 玄狐
 hēi shì black market
 biàn tǐ lín shāng covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises
 mǒ hēi 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)
 hēi xiá zi (airplane) black box
 hēi shā black armband
 Hēi Hǎi Black Sea
 Zhēn wǔ Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 / or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝
 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3]
 dòu chǐ black bean / black bean sauce
 hūn tiān hēi dì lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
 bái zhǐ hēi zì (written) in black and white
 àn wú tiān rì all black, no daylight (idiom) / a world without justice
 bèi quilt / by / (indicates passive-voice clauses) / (literary) to cover / to meet with / (coll.) (since c. 2009) used before a verb that does not accurately represent what actually happened, to describe with black humor how sb or sth was dealt with by the authorities (as in 被自殺|被自杀[bei4 zi4 sha1])
 tàn hēi black carbon
 chá yè dàn tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
 Hēi Xuàn fēng Black Whirlwind, nickname of 李逵[Li3 Kui2], known for his fearsome behavior in combat and his dark complexion
 hēi guǐ black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
 qīng yú black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel
 hài qún zhī mǎ lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple
 hēi xiāng black box / flight recorder / opaque system (computing)
 wū shā mào black hat (worn by feudal official) / fig. official post
 hēi hú jiāo black pepper
 wū liàng lustrous and black / jet-black
 Hēi Qí Jūn Black Flag Army
 lóng kuí black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
 cāng zhú black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
 làng dàng black henbane
 hēi sè xīng qī wǔ Black Friday
 tàn hēi soot / carbon black
 hēi táo black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture)
 xuán qīng deep black
 cǎo guǒ black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry
 Yǎng sháo wén huà Yangshao neolithic culture from the central Yellow river basin, with red and black pottery
 tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēi all crows are black (idiom) / evil people are bad all over the world
 hēi sù melanin / black pigment
 hēi sǐ bìng bubonic plague / Black Death
 wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / the pot calls the kettle black
 hēi wǔ lèi the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
 Luó sī tuō fū Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
 hēi xiā zi black bear
 xuè cháng blood sausage / blutwurst / black pudding
 yáng huái black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
 hēi huǒ yào black powder
 luò camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic)
 àn deep black / dark / dull (color)
 lí black horse / jet steed / good horse / legendary black dragon
 jiǔ black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
 luò black horse with white mane / fearful
 zī Buddhists / black silk / dark
 tí coarse greenish black pongee
 fǔ (archaic) motif of axes with black handles and white heads, a symbol of authority embroidered on ceremonial robes
 liú bay horse with black mane
 fú (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread
 yī black and shining ebony
 jù black millet
 máng black horse with a white face
 yǎn black spots on body
 diān dǎo hēi bái lit. to invert black and white (idiom) / to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
 jìn mò zhě hēi proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修) / different environments provide different influence. / Nurture determines a person's character.
 hùn xiáo hēi bái to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
 yǎn black spots on body
 yú black ram
 yù black horse with white legs
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