青 green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) 黑 black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing) 黑 色 hēi sè black 黝 黑 yǒu hēi dark / black / suntanned 黑 糊 糊 hēi hū hū black / dark / dusky / indistinct 乌 crow / black 黎 (literary) black / dark / many / multitude 卢 (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy 玄 black / mysterious 皂 soap / black 黝 black / dark green 淄 black / name of a river 黢 black / dark 魖 black / see 黑魖魖[hei1 xu1 xu1] 黑 白 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome 晕 倒 yūn dǎo to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious 黑 人 hēi rén black person / an illegal 黑 洞 hēi dòng (astronomy) black hole 乌 云 wū yún black cloud 截 然 不 同 jié rán bù tóng entirely different / different as black and white 对 比 度 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast 五 彩 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored 青 衣 qīng yī black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦[zheng4 dan4] 红 茶 hóng chá black tea / CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2] 黑 发 hēi fà black hair 单 色 dān sè monochrome / monochromatic / black and white 反 转 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc) 黑 眼 圈 hēi yǎn quān dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye 乌 龙 wū lóng black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon 黑 心 hēi xīn ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery) 石 墨 shí mò black lead / graphite / plumbago 黑 色 素 hēi sè sù black pigment / melanin 黑 熊 hēi xióng Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) 紫 竹 zǐ zhú black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) 青 丝 qīng sī fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient) 狗 熊 gǒu xióng black bear / coward 银 狐 yín hú silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) / also written 玄狐 黑 市 hēi shì black market 遍 体 鳞 伤 biàn tǐ lín shāng covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises 抹 黑 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) 黑 匣 子 hēi xiá zi (airplane) black box 黑 纱 hēi shā black armband 黑 海 Hēi Hǎi Black Sea 真 武 Zhēn wǔ Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 / or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝 四 象 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] 豆 豉 dòu chǐ black bean / black bean sauce 昏 天 黑 地 hūn tiān hēi dì lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times 白 纸 黑 字 bái zhǐ hēi zì (written) in black and white 暗 无 天 日 àn wú tiān rì all black, no daylight (idiom) / a world without justice 被 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]) 炭 黑 tàn hēi black carbon 茶 叶 蛋 chá yè dàn tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea) 黑 旋 风 Hēi Xuàn fēng Black Whirlwind, nickname of 李逵[Li3 Kui2], known for his fearsome behavior in combat and his dark complexion 黑 鬼 hēi guǐ black devil (derogatory term for black or African person) 青 鱼 qīng yú black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel 害 群 之 马 hài qún zhī mǎ lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple 黑 箱 hēi xiāng black box / flight recorder / opaque system (computing) 乌 纱 帽 wū shā mào black hat (worn by feudal official) / fig. official post 黑 胡 椒 hēi hú jiāo black pepper 乌 亮 wū liàng lustrous and black / jet-black 黑 旗 军 Hēi Qí Jūn Black Flag Army 龙 葵 lóng kuí black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) 苍 术 cāng zhú black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM) 莨 菪 làng dàng black henbane 黑 色 星 期 五 hēi sè xīng qī wǔ Black Friday 碳 黑 tàn hēi soot / carbon black 黑 陶 hēi táo black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture) 玄 青 xuán qīng deep black 草 果 cǎo guǒ black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry 仰 韶 文 化 Yǎng sháo wén huà Yangshao neolithic culture from the central Yellow river basin, with red and black pottery 天 下 乌 鸦 一 般 黑 tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēi all crows are black (idiom) / evil people are bad all over the world 黑 素 hēi sù melanin / black pigment 黑 死 病 hēi sǐ bìng bubonic plague / Black Death 五 十 步 笑 百 步 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 黑 五 类 hēi wǔ lèi the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists 罗 斯 托 夫 Luó sī tuō fū Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea) 黑 瞎 子 hēi xiā zi black bear 血 肠 xuè cháng blood sausage / blutwurst / black pudding 洋 槐 yáng huái black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia) 黑 火 药 hēi huǒ yào black powder 骆 camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic) 黯 deep black / dark / dull (color) 骊 black horse / jet steed / good horse / legendary black dragon 玖 black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral) 雒 black horse with white mane / fearful 缁 Buddhists / black silk / dark 绨 coarse greenish black pongee 黼 (archaic) motif of axes with black handles and white heads, a symbol of authority embroidered on ceremonial robes 骝 bay horse with black mane 黻 (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread 黟 black and shining ebony 秬 black millet 駹 black horse with a white face 黡 black spots on body 颠 倒 黑 白 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 近 墨 者 黑 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. 混 淆 黑 白 hùn xiáo hēi bái to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong 黶 black spots on body 羭 black ram 驈 black horse with white legs
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