颜色 顏色 yán sè color / countenance / appearance / facial expression / pigment / dyestuff syn 颜料 顏料 yán liào paint / dye / pigment syn 色素 sè sù pigment 黑子 hēi zǐ black piece (in Chinese chess) / black stone (in Go) / (astronomy) sunspot syn 昏天黑地 hūn tiān hēi dì lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times syn 豆豉 dòu chǐ black bean / black bean sauce 真武 zhēn wǔ Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝 黑鬼 hēi guǐ black devil (derogatory term for black or African person) 乌亮 烏亮 wū liàng lustrous and black / jet-black syn 血色素 xuè sè sù hematin (blood pigment) / heme / hemoglobin / also written 血紅蛋白|血红蛋白[xue4 hong2 dan4 bai2] 赭石 zhě shí ocher (pigment) 骊 驪 lí black horse / jet steed / good horse / legendary black dragon 靛 diàn indigo pigment syn 将 將 jiàng (bound form) a general / (literary) to command / to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) syn 黑人 hēi rén black person / an illegal 黑色 hēi sè black 黑洞 hēi dòng (astronomy) black hole 晕倒 暈倒 yūn dǎo to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious syn 黑市 hēi shì black market 截然不同 jié rán bù tóng entirely different / different as black and white syn 黑白 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome syn 漆黑 qī hēi pitch-black syn 乌云 烏雲 wū yún black cloud syn 黑发 黑髮 hēi fà black hair syn 狗熊 gǒu xióng black bear / coward syn 抹黑 mǒ hēi to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words) syn 黑心 hēi xīn ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery) syn 白纸黑字 白紙黑字 bái zhǐ hēi zì (written) in black and white syn 害群之马 害群之馬 hài qún zhī mǎ lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple syn 红茶 紅茶 hóng chá black tea / CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2] 黝黑 yǒu hēi dark / black / suntanned syn 黑熊 hēi xióng Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) syn 穷凶极恶 窮兇極惡 qióng xiōng jí è fiendish / black-hearted syn 遍体鳞伤 遍體鱗傷 biàn tǐ lín shāng covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises syn 黑匣子 hēi xiá zi (airplane) black box syn 五彩 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored syn 黑海 hēi hǎi Black Sea 莨菪 làng dàng black henbane 石墨 shí mò black lead / graphite / plumbago 青鱼 青魚 qīng yú black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel syn 对比度 對比度 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast 草果 cǎo guǒ black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry syn 单色 單色 dān sè monochrome / monochromatic / black and white 青丝 青絲 qīng sī fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient) syn 乌黑 烏黑 wū hēi jet-black / dark syn 银狐 銀狐 yín hú silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) / also written 玄狐 syn 乌纱帽 烏紗帽 wū shā mào black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) / (fig.) official post syn 黑沉沉 hēi chēn chēn pitch-black syn 乌龙 烏龍 wū lóng black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon 乌鸡 烏雞 wū jī black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson 龙葵 龍葵 lóng kuí black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) 青衣 qīng yī black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦[zheng4 dan4] syn 反转 反轉 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc) syn 黑眼圈 hēi yǎn quān dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye 紫竹 zǐ zhú black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) syn 黄莺 黃鶯 huáng yīng black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) syn 普洱茶 pǔ ěr chá Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan 黑纱 黑紗 hēi shā black armband 黑糊糊 hēi hū hū black / dark / dusky / indistinct syn 四象 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3] 不分青红皂白 不分青紅皂白 bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong 暗无天日 暗無天日 àn wú tiān rì all black, no daylight (idiom) / a world without justice syn 炭黑 tàn hēi black carbon 茶叶蛋 茶葉蛋 chá yè dàn tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea) 黑旋风 黑旋風 hēi xuàn fēng Black Whirlwind, nickname of 李逵[Li3 Kui2], known for his fearsome behavior in combat and his dark complexion 黑箱 hēi xiāng black box / flight recorder / opaque system (computing) 豇豆 jiāng dòu cowpea / black-eyed bean 黑胡椒 hēi hú jiāo black pepper 黑旗军 黑旗軍 hēi qí jūn Black Flag Army 苍术 蒼術 cāng zhú black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM) 黑色星期五 hēi sè xīng qī wǔ Black Friday 碳黑 tàn hēi soot / carbon black 黑陶 hēi táo black eggshell pottery (of the Neolithic Longshan culture) 漆黑一团 漆黑一團 qī hēi yī tuán pitch-black / (fig.) to be completely in the dark syn 玄青 xuán qīng deep black 不问青红皂白 不問青紅皂白 bù wèn qīng hóng zào bái not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong 仰韶文化 yǎng sháo wén huà Yangshao neolithic culture from the central Yellow river basin, with red and black pottery syn 乌骨鸡 烏骨雞 wū gǔ jī black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson 黑 hēi black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing) syn 青 qīng green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) syn 卢 盧 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy 黛 dài umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow syn 乌 烏 wū crow / black syn 黎 lí (literary) black / dark / many / multitude 玄 xuán black / mysterious syn 黑盒子 hēi hé zi black box 骆 駱 luò camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic) 皂 zào soap / black syn 骐 騏 qí (literary) black horse 颠倒黑白 顛倒黑白 diān dǎo hēi bái lit. to invert black and white (idiom) / to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong syn 黝 yǒu black / dark green 玖 jiǔ black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral) syn 近墨者黑 jìn mò zhě hēi proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修) / different environments provide different influence. / Nurture determines a person's character. 洋槐 yáng huái black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia) syn 乌青 烏青 wū qīng bluish black / bruise / bruising (CL:塊|块[kuai4]) 黑黢黢 hēi qū qū pitch-black / pitch-dark syn 罗斯托夫 羅斯托夫 luó sī tuō fū Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea) 黑咕隆咚 hēi gu lōng dōng pitch-black / pitch-dark syn 