黑 (hak1 haak1 | hei1 hei3 he4) : black

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黑

hak1 haak1

hei1 hei3 he4

[1] black; dark [2] evil; sinister; gloomy [3] Kangxi radical 203

Stroke count: 12

Level: 1

Radical: (#203)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

黑

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 23rd Jul 2009 06:45

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黑白 hak1 baak6 hei1 bai2 = black and white, right and wrong

黑板 hak1 baan2 hei1 ban3 = blackboard

黑心 hak1 sam1 hei1 xin1 = wicked

晚黑 maan5 haak1 = at night; nighttime 粵

夜晚黑 je6 maan5 haak1 = at night; nighttime 粵

黑色 haak1 sik1; hak1 sik1 hei1 se4 = black

黑仔 haak1 zai2 = unlucky 粵

黑白相 haak1 baak6 soeng1*2 = black and white photos

黑白片 hak1 baak6 pin3*2 hei1 bai2 pian4 = a film/movie which is black and white

黑暗 hak1 am3 hei1 an4 = dark
See all 163 compounds (CantoDict reports 173 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 11 examples containing 黑

佢曬到好黑粵
He's tanned.
[Lit. he shine arrive (very) black]

我今日好黑仔啊！粵
I'm so unlucky today!

我們在黑板上畫一個正方形吧. 國
Let's draw a square on the blackboard.

老虎的身上有很多黑棕色的條紋國
A tiger has many black-brown stripes on its body.

噴泉前面有一隻好靚嘅黑色貓粵
There's a beautiful cat in front of the fountain.
[Lit. fountain front-face have one [counter] beautiful [possessive particle] black-colour cat.]

呢間房黑猛猛粵
This room is pitch black.

佢曬太陽曬到黑猛猛粵
He sunbathed so much he got a great tan.
[Lit. he shine-sun shine-arrive pitch black. 佢曬到黑猛猛 is okay too.]

佢一見到我，即刻黑面粵
Once he saw me, he gave me a stern look.

家下都光黑，我睇係嚟唔切去架喇！粵
It is already dusk, I don't think we can make it in time.

屋企咁黑猛猛，我好似盲咗噉睇唔到嘢粵
The house is so dark it's like I'm blind.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 黑
Unicode code for this character: U+9ED1 (off-site link)

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