Memory phrase for the Kanji: 黑


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Meaning

black, dark

Pronunciation

hēi

Explanation

At top: variation of village , bottom: fire - Here: consider as cooking pot

Mnemonic

The underside of the cooking pot is stained by fire black.

Radicals

blackThe lower side of the cooking pot is - by the fire - stained black.
fireAlso this radical stands for fire.
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Vocabulary

 黑格尔  Hēi gé ěr  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
 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
 黑素瘤  hēi sù liú  melanoma (type of skin cancer)
 黑冠长臂猿  hēi guān cháng bì yuán  black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus)
 黑砖窑  hēi zhuān yáo  lit. black brick kiln; factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor
 黑咕隆咚  hēi gu lōng dōng  pitch-black; pitch-dark
 傍黑  bàng hēi  dusk
 黑匣子  hēi xiá zi  (airplane) black box
 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
 黑颈鹤  hēi jǐng hè  black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis); Tibetan crane
 黑盒  hēi hé  black box; fig. system whose internal structure is unknown
 黑盒  hēi hé  


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