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黑板hēi bǎn
blackboard
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 黑板 | hēibǎn | |
| 1. n. blackboard (from late 19th c.) | ||
| 把 黑板 擦 乾gān淨 - to wipe the blackboard clean - | ||
| 他 給 了 我 一 支 粉筆，讓 我 在 黑板 上 寫 下 自己 的 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 | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| blackboard | ||
| 1. 黑板 | ||
| 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) | ||
| 板 | bǎn | |
| 1. plank; board | ||
| 木板 - board; plank | ||
| 玻璃 板 - 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 | ||
| 散sǎn板 - 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 | ||
| 噶 聲 閒話 板 是 俚 說 噶。 - That voice must be his., W-SZ, ref=1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19 | ||
| 12. Variant of 闆 | ||
| 闆 | bǎn | |
| 1. Only used in 老闆 | ||
| 2. to look from a door (attn, zh, please check: 門中視) | ||
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Pronunciation
hēi bǎn
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