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黑色hēi sè
black
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 黑色 | hēisè | |
| 1. n. the color black | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| black | ||
| 1. 名词. 黑色 | ||
| Components | ||
| 黑 | hēi, hěi, hè | |
| 1. black | ||
| 黑色 - black color | ||
| 她 戴 著zhe 黑 帽子zi。 - She's wearing a black hat. | ||
| 2. dark; darkness | ||
| 這麼 黑，我 看 不 見。 - It's so dark; I can't see. | ||
| 她 很 怕 黑。 - She is very afraid of the dark. | ||
| 成seng4 間 房fong4-2 好 黑。 - The whole room is very dark. | ||
| 3. evening; night | ||
| 4. illegal; clandestine; secret; shady | ||
| 黑市 - black market | ||
| 黑幫 - criminal gang | ||
| 昨天 他們 在 公園 開 了 個 黑 會。 - They had a clandestine meeting in the park yesterday. | ||
| 5. (colloquial) to illegally reside (in a country) | ||
| 6. sinister; evil | ||
| 7. to make fun of; to mock | ||
| 8. (computing) to hack | ||
| 黑客 - hacker | ||
| 你 可以 黑-掉 亨德森 辦公室 的 電腦 嗎？ - Can you hack into Henderson's office computer? | ||
| 9. (colloquial) to libel | ||
| 這 件 事，我 可 是 有.一.說.一，不 吹 不 黑。 - As for this thing, I say it as it is and don't boast or libel. | ||
| 這 是 × × 被 黑 得de 最 慘 的 一.次。 - This is the time when **** is libelled the most badly. | ||
| 10. one who libels | ||
| 11. (by extension) hater; anti-fan | ||
| 12. (Cantonese) unlucky; unfortunate | ||
| 13. (Hui, euphemistic) pig; pork | ||
| 14. Short for 黑龍江, Heilongjiang province | ||
| 15. (Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese) Alternative form of 烏 (-, t=black) | ||
| 色 | sè, shǎi, shè | |
| 1. color; tint; hue; shade | ||
| 顏色 - color | ||
| 顏色shǎi兒r - color | ||
| 紅色 - red | ||
| 四.色.定理 - four color theorem | ||
| 2. look; expression | ||
| 臉色 - facial expression | ||
| 3. scenery; circumstance | ||
| 景色 - scenery | ||
| 夜色 - night scenery | ||
| 4. kind; sort | ||
| 貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification | ||
| 5. feminine charm; beauty | ||
| 姿色 - good looks (of women) | ||
| 6. lust; sexual desire | ||
| 好hào色 - to lust for women | ||
| 色情 - pornography; sexual desire | ||
| 7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous | ||
| 8. theatrical role | ||
| 角jué色 - role; part | ||
| 9. metallic content | ||
| 成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) | ||
| 10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) | ||
| 色shǎi子zi - die | ||
| 11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) | ||
| 色 即 是 空，空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. | ||
| 12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) | ||
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Pronunciation
hēi sè
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