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U+9ED1, 黑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ED1

[U+9ED0]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9ED2]
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U+2FCA, ⿊
KANGXI RADICAL BLACK

[U+2FC9]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2FCB]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 203, +0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田土火 (WGF), four-corner 60331, composition ⿱⿻)

  1. Kangxi radical #203, .

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1518, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48038
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2051, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4743, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9ED1
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Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 黑, Shang ...

Pictogram (象形) – a person () with a tattooed face, depicting penal tattooing ( and ), one of the five punishments of ancient China.

In the bronze inscriptions from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, dots were sometimes added around , leading Shuowen to erroneously interpret the character as an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𡆧 (chimney) + (fire; flame) — fire burning under a chimney, causing it to become black from the smoke.

This word displaced the earlier word for "black", . Unrelated to .

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak. Cognate with (OC *mlɯːɡ, “ink”).

The sense of “hack” is a phono-semantic matching of English hack.

Pronunciation


Note: hěi - variant used in some contexts, e.g. 黑豆.

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Definitions

  1. black
       hēi   black color
    帽子   Tā dài zhe hēi màozi.   She's wearing a black hat.
  2. dark; darkness
    這麼 [MSC, trad.]
    这么 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhème hēi, wǒ kàn bù jiàn. [Pinyin]
    It's so dark; I can't see.
       Tā hěn pà hēi.   She is very afraid of the dark.
    [Cantonese, trad.]
    [Cantonese, simp.]
    seng4 gaan1 fong4-2 hou2 haak1. [Jyutping]
    The whole room is very dark.
  3. evening; night
  4. illegal; clandestine; secret; shady
       hēishì   black market
       hēibāng   criminal gang
    昨天他們公園 [MSC, trad.]
    昨天他们公园 [MSC, simp.]
    Zuótiān tāmen zài gōngyuán kāi le ge hēi huì. [Pinyin]
    They had a clandestine meeting in the park yesterday.
  5. (colloquial) to illegally reside (in a country)
  6. sinister; evil
  7. (computing) to crack; to hack
       hēi   hacker
    可以亨德森辦公室電腦 [MSC, trad.]
    可以亨德森办公室电脑 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ kěyǐ hēidiào Hēngdésēn bàngōngshì de diànnǎo ma? [Pinyin]
    Can you hack into Henderson's office computer?
  8. (colloquial) to smear; to libel
    有一說一 [MSC, trad.]
    有一说一 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè jiàn shì, wǒ kě shì yǒu yī shuō yī, bù chuī bù hēi. [Pinyin]
    As for this thing, I say it as it is and don't boast or libel.
    ××一次 [MSC, trad.]
    ××一次 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè shì × × bèi hēi de zuì cǎn de yī cì. [Pinyin]
    This is the time when **** is libelled the most badly.
  9. one who libels; one who smears
  10. (by extension) hater; anti-fan
  11. (Cantonese) unlucky; unfortunate
  12. (Hui, euphemistic) pig; pork
  13. short for 黑龍江黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng, “Heilongjiang province”)
  14. a surname
Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (こく) (koku)
  • Korean: 흑(黑) (heuk)
  • Vietnamese: hắc ()

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. (Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese) alternative form of  / (black)

References

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Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. black

Readings

Khitan

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to Old Uyghur 𐽲𐽰𐽾𐽰 (qʾrʾ /⁠ḳara⁠/, black, west).

Noun

(kara)

  1. west

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 검을 (geomeul heuk))

  1. hanja form? of (black)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hắc

  1. chữ Hán form of hắc (black)

Compounds

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