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黑
黑
See also: 黒
Translingual
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Han character
黑 (radical 203 黑+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田土火 (WGF), four-corner 60331)
- Kangxi radical #203, ⿊ (“black”).
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 1518, character 36
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48038
- Dae Jaweon: page 2051, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4743, character 1
- Unihan data for U+9ED1
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
黑 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 黑
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (黑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 嚜 | *mrɯɡs |
| 嫼 | *ʔmrɯːd |
| 墨 | *mlɯːɡ |
| 默 | *mlɯːɡ |
| 纆 | *mɯːɡ |
| 黑 | *hmlɯːɡ |
| 潶 | *hmlɯːɡ |
Pictogram (象形) – catching soot in a container over a fire (火).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak. Cognate with 墨 (OC *mlɯːɡ, “ink”).
The sense of “hack” is a phono-semantic matching of English hack.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hak1, haak1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): het
- Min Dong (BUC): háik
- Min Nan (POJ): hek
- Wu (Wiktionary): heq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄟ
- Wade-Giles: hei1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hei
- IPA (key): /xeɪ̯⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, literary)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˋ
- Wade-Giles: ho4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heh
- IPA (key): /xɤ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hak1, haak1
- Yale: hāk, hāak
- Cantonese Pinyin: hak7, haak7
- IPA (key): /hɐk̚⁵/, /hɑːk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: het
- Hakka Romanization System: hed`
- Hagfa Pinyim: hed5
- IPA: /het̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: háik
- IPA (key): /haiʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hek
- Tâi-lô: hik
- Phofsit Daibuun: heg
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪk̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /hiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: heq (T4)
- IPA (key): /həʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 黑 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /xei⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /xei⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /xei²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /xei²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /xe⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /xɛ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /xei²¹/ | |
| Xining | /xɨ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /xɯ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /xə/ | |
| Ürümqi | /xei⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /xɤ²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /xe³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /xɛ²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /xə³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /xəʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /xɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /xəʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /xʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /xəʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /həʔ⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /həʔ⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /hɑʔ⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /he²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /xeʔ²¹/ |
| Tunxi | /xə⁵/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /xə²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /hæ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /hɛʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /het̚¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /het̚²²/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou |
/hɐk̚⁵/ /hak̚⁵/ |
| Nanning | /hɐk̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong |
/hɐk̚⁵/ /hak̚⁵/ |
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| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /hik̚³²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /haiʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xuɛ/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hek̚²/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ɔu²³/ 訓烏 |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 黑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 呼北切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/hək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/hək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/hək̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/xək̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/xək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
he |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 黑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
hēi |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ xok › |
| Old Chinese |
/*m̥ˤək/ (dialect *m̥ˤ- > xˤ-) |
| English | black |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 黑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5109 |
| Phonetic component |
黑 |
| Rime group |
職 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
黑 |
| Old Chinese |
/*hmlɯːɡ/ |
Definitions
黑
- black
- dark; darkness
- evening; night
- illegal; clandestine; secret; shady
- sinister; evil
- to make fun of; to mock
- (computing) to hack
- 黑客 ― hēikè ― hacker
- hater
- Short for 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng, “Heilongjiang province”).
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 黑 (“black”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 黑、烏、青、皂 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 黑 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 黑 |
| Taiwan | 黑 | |
| Tianjin | 黑 | |
| Jinan | 黑 | |
| Xi'an | 黑 | |
| Wuhan | 黑、烏、青 | |
| Chengdu | 黑、青 | |
| Yangzhou | 黑 | |
| Hefei | 黑 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 黑 |
| Hong Kong | 黑 | |
| Yangjiang | 黑 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 黑、烏、青 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 烏 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 黑 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 烏、青 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 烏、青 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 烏 |
| Xiamen | 烏 | |
| Zhangzhou | 烏 | |
| Taipei | 烏 | |
| Chaozhou | 烏 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 黑 |
| Suzhou | 黑 | |
| Wenzhou | 黑、烏、青 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 黑、青 |
| Shuangfeng | 黑、青 | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 黑
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Korean
Hanja
黑 • (heuk) (hangeul 흑, McCune-Reischauer hŭk, Yale huk)
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Vietnamese
Han character
黑 (hắc)
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