黑

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

1. Kangxi radical #203, ⿊.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/黑
• 嘿, 嫼, 㩏, 潶, 㷵, 䁫, 䆀, 蟔, 㱄, 㸃, 儵

• 黒

• 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

Historical forms of the character 黑
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a person (大) with a tattooed face, depicting penal tattooing (墨 and 黥), 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 大, leading Shuowen to erroneously interpret the character as an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𡆧 (“chimney”) + 炎 (“fire; flame”) — fire burning under a chimney, causing it to become black from the smoke.

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

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.

黑

1. black

   黑色  ―  hēisè  ―  black color

   她戴著黑帽子。  ―  Tā dài zhe hēi màozi.  ―  She's wearing a black hat.

   • 莫赤匪狐，莫黑匪烏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     莫赤匪狐，莫黑匪乌。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Mò chì fěi hú, mò hēi fěi wū.

     Nothing red is seen but foxes,
     Nothing black but crows.

2. dark; darkness

   這麼黑，我看不見。 [MSC, trad.]
   这么黑，我看不见。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhème hēi, wǒ kàn bù jiàn.

   It's so dark; I can't see.

   她很怕黑。  ―  Tā hěn pà hēi.  ―  She is very afraid of the dark.

   成間房好黑。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   成间房好黑。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   seng⁴ gaan¹ fong^4-2 hou² haak¹.

   The whole room is very dark.

3. evening; night
4. illegal; clandestine; secret; shady

   黑市  ―  hēishì  ―  black market

   黑幫／黑帮  ―  hēibāng  ―  criminal gang

   昨天他們在公園開了個黑會。 [MSC, trad.]
   昨天他们在公园开了个黑会。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zuótiān tāmen zài gōngyuán kāi le ge hēi huì.

   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

   黑客  ―  hēikè  ―  hacker

   你可以黑掉亨德森辦公室的電腦嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
   你可以黑掉亨德森办公室的电脑吗？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ kěyǐ hēidiào Hēngdésēn bàngōngshì de diànnǎo ma?

   Can you hack into Henderson's office computer?

8. (colloquial) to smear; to libel

   這件事，我可是有一說一，不吹不黑。 [MSC, trad.]
   这件事，我可是有一说一，不吹不黑。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè jiàn shì, wǒ kě shì yǒu yī shuō yī, bù chuī bù hēi.

   As for this thing, I say it as it is and don't boast or libel.

   這是××被黑得最慘的一次。 [MSC, trad.]
   这是××被黑得最惨的一次。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè shì × × bèi hēi de zuì cǎn de yī cì.

   This is the time when **** is libelled the most badly.

   • 2019 September 9, 「TNND＋恁爸等你」 韓金句連發嗆黑韓產業鏈‎, 東森新聞 CH51, archived from the original on 2023-02-23:

     所以的黑韓產業幾萬人「用火車都拉不完，用高鐵都拉不完」，我四個字：「放馬過來！」 [MSC, trad.]
     所以的黑韩产业几万人「用火车都拉不完，用高铁都拉不完」，我四个字：「放马过来！」 [MSC, simp.]

     Suǒyǐ de hēi hán chǎnyè jǐ wàn rén “yòng huǒchē dōu lā bù wán, yòng gāotiě dōu lā bù wán”, wǒ sì ge zì: “Fàngmǎguòlái!”

     So to the many people in the "Han libel industry" who claim "I can't make it even by train or high-speed rail", I have four words: "Face me head on!"

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

黑

1. (Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese) Alternative form of 烏 / 乌 (“black”)

• “黑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黒)

1. black

• Go-on: こく (koku)^{←こく (koku, historical)}
• Kan-on: こく (koku)^{←こく (koku, historical)}
• Kun: くろ (kuro, 黑)^{←くろ (kuro, 黑, historical)}、くろい (kuroi, 黑い)^{←くろい (kuroi, 黑い, historical)}

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

黑 (kara)

1. west

黑 (eumhun 검을 흑 (geomeul heuk))

1. hanja form^? of 흑 (“black”)

• 흑자 (黑字, heukja, “surplus”)

黑: Hán Nôm readings: hắc

1. chữ Hán form of hắc (“black”).