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Word and Radical Components of 黑板

The Chinese word 黑板 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
黑板 hēibǎn 1. n. blackboard (from late 19th c.)
     zh-co, 黑板 gān, to wipe the blackboard clean
      粉筆 黑板 自己 名字。 - He gave me a piece of chalk and asked me to write my name on the blackboard.
2. n. (literary, literally) black plank

黑板 ⇨ 黑 + 板
Component Pinyin Meanings
hēi, hěi, hè 1. black
     黑色 - black color
      zhe 帽子zi。 - She's wearing a black hat.
2. dark; darkness
     這麼 。 - It's so dark; I can't see.
      。 - She is very afraid of the dark.
     seng4 fong4-2 。 - 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 公園 。 - 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
      可以 - 亨德森 辦公室 電腦 ? - Can you hack into Henderson's office computer?
9. (colloquial) to libel
      ... 。 - As for this thing, I say it as it is and don't boast or libel.
      × × de .。 - 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)
bǎn 1. plank; board
     木板 - board; plank
     玻璃 - glass board
2. blackboard
     (zh-x, 板報)
3. sluggish; stiff; inflexible
     呆板 - sluggish
     古板 - stuffy; old-fashioned and inflexible
4. to harden; hardened
5. (internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard)
6. (music) clapper
7. (music) beat; meter; rhythm (in music or Chinese opera)
     行板 - andante
     sǎn - sanban
8. to look serious or displeased
9. (literary or Min Nan) wooden coffin
10. (Min Nan) ability; capability; talent
11. (Suzhou) to have to; must
      閒話 。 - That voice must be his., W-SZ, ref=1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19
12. Variant of 闆

板 ⇨ 木 + 反
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. tree; woody plant
     (syn, zh, )
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
      桌子 。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
      手指 。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
fàn 1. (music) (ng, Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note fa (4).)
     (syn, zh, )

反 ⇨ + 又
Component Pinyin Meanings
1.
yòu 1. again; once more
      下雨 ! - It's raining again!
      - to think and think; to deeply think about
     一次 一次 失敗 - failure after failure
2. (Used to express the coexistence of several conditions or qualities); both ... and ...
     聰明 漂亮liang - smart and pretty
      。 - I am hungry and thirsty.
      怎麼 ? - I want to go, but I also don't want to go, what should I do?
3. also; in addition
     ·- 科學家 藝術家。 - Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist also an artist.
4. (Used between a whole number and a fraction)
      小時 分鐘 - four hours and ten minutes
      - two and a third
5. but; on the other hand
6. (Used in negative statements and rhetorical questions for emphasis)
     這樣 什麼 好處? - What good for you is there in doing that?
      唔係 。 - Why should I care about that! It's not like I did it.
      唔係 冇錢。 - It's not like I'm broke.
7. usage. Compared to 又 is used for something that already happened.