Word and Radical Components of 黑色

The Chinese word 黑色 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
黑色	hēisè	1. n. the color black

黑色 ⇨ 黑 + 色

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
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)

色 ⇨ ⺈ + 巴

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
⺈		1.
巴	bā	1. (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
		2. to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
		3. (Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.)
		尾巴ba - tail
		下巴ba - chin
		4. (Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.)
		泥巴ba - mud
		5. to cling to; to stick to
		6. (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuan, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
		7. (Beijing, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
		8. (Sichuan) to suit; to fit
		9. (Sichuan) to follow
		10. (Sichuan) to be intimate
		11. (Sichuan) to involve; to implicate
		12. (Sichuan) to kiss up; to curry favour
		13. (Sichuan) to subsidize
		14. (Sichuan) to infect; to contract
		15. (dialectal Mandarin, including, Beijing, Shandong, Xinjiang) to sew; to stitch on
		16. (Southwestern Mandarin, ;, Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan) dried object
		17. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese)
		打佢一巴 - to give him a slap
		18. (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuan) along
		19. (historical) (place, zh, ancient state, in modern-day, p/Sichuan, t1=Ba)
		20. eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
		21. Short for 巴士, bus
		小巴 - minibus -
		22. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)
		23. (Cantonese) bar (solid object)
		電巴 - busbar -
		24. Short for 巴勒斯坦, Palestine
		25. Short for 巴基斯坦, Pakistan
		26. Short for 巴拿馬, Panama
		27. Short for 巴哈馬, The Bahamas
		28. Short for 巴拉圭, Paraguay
		29. Variant of 芭
		30. Variant of 笆
		31. Variant of 粑

巴 ⇨ 巳 + 丨

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
巳	sì	1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
		2. snake (蛇) of Chinese zodiac
		3. Variant of 已
丨	gǔn	1. line
丨		2. be through up and down