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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黑* | 黑* | *黑
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
HSK 2
black
HSK 2
black tea / CL: , 壺|壶
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
black cloud
HSK 6
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *玄* | 玄* | *玄
black / mysterious
HSK 7-9
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *將* | 將* | *將
(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) / also written 玄狐
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *驈* | 驈* | *驈
black horse with white legs
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鷬* | 鷬* | *鷬
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黛* | 黛* | *黛
umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *玈* | 玈* | *玈
black
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *駱* | 駱* | *駱
camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic)
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan
black person / an illegal
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)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黎* | 黎* | *黎
(literary) black / dark / many / multitude
(astronomy) black hole
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盧* | 盧* | *盧
(old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐 / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
Black Forest / Schwarzwald
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烏* | 烏* | *烏
crow / black
pitch-black
to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc) / to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
black market
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *騏* | 騏* | *騏
(literary) black horse
black armband
Longshan culture / black pottery culture
black hair
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涅* | 涅* | *涅
(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye) / (literary) to dye black
jet-black / dark
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
black (without gloss) / black with a hint of red in it
black pigment / melanin
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
pitch-black / (fig.) to be completely in the dark
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
black lead / graphite / plumbago
(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
(written) in black and white
black coal
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *騮* | 騮* | *騮
bay horse with black mane
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皁* | 皁* | *皁
black / police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
bluish black / bruise; bruising (CL:塊|块)
fiendish / black-hearted
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *玖* | 玖* | *玖
black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
black piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go) / (astronomy) sunspot
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
all crows are black (idiom) / evil people are bad all over the world
lustrous and black / jet-black
black and white TV
Xuanwu (Black tortoise) district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / fig. the pot calls the kettle black
eyebrows (with umber black make-up)
can't tell black from white (idiom); unable to distinguish wrong from right
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武
Black Sea
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *驪* | 驪* | *驪
black horse / jet steed / good horse / legendary black dragon
lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple
dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye
dark / black / suntanned
black / dark / dusky / indistinct
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) / (fig.) official post
jet-black / pitch-dark
lit. the black horse of the herd / fig. troublemaker / the black sheep of the family
Black Flag Army
black olive (Canarium tramdenum)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雒* | 雒* | *雒
black horse with white mane / fearful
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *綈* | 綈* | *綈
coarse greenish black pongee
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笎* | 笎* | *笎
bamboo with black patches
bubonic plague / Black Death
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瑿* | 瑿* | *瑿
a black stone like jade / jet
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *駯* | 駯* | *駯
black muzzle (of a horse)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *緇* | 緇* | *緇
Buddhists / black silk / dark
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黰* | 黰* | *黰
bushy black hair
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *羭* | 羭* | *羭
black ram
cowpea / black-eyed bean
dim; dark; murky / black

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