Memory phrase for the character: 黑
黑
Meaning
black, dark Pronunciation hēi Explanation At top: variation of village 里, bottom: fire 灬 - Here: consider 里 as cooking pot
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The underside of the cooking pot is stained by fire black. Radicals
黑
black The lower side of the cooking pot 里 is - by the fire 灬 - stained black.
灬
fire Also this radical 火 stands for fire.
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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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