黑
hēi HSK2

black

黑 hēi
black adjective
the color of coal or ink; opposite of 白 bái

她今天穿黑的。

tā jīn​tiān chuān hēi de.

She's wearing black today.

有3顶白帽子和2顶黑帽子。

yǒu3 dǐng bái mào​zi hé2 dǐng hēi mào​zi.

There are 3 white hats and 2 black hats.

dark adjectiveverb
lacking light; dim; night or nightfall

不久天就要黑了。

bù​jiǔ tiān jiù​yào hēi le.

It'll be dark soon.

wicked noun
sinister; vicious; heartless; cruel
to blacken nounverb
to hide something away; to vilify someone; (slang) to hack a computer or account
shady noun
secret or covert; illegal; unregulated as in a black market
to embezzle
to be greedy; to extort or illegally pocket money
Heilongjiang
abbreviation for 黑龙江 hēi​lóng​jiāng province
[surname]
the family name Hei
hey
interjection used to call for attention or express surprise; hey

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Frequency
Character
Written text
519th most common 407.7 per million
Movie subtitles
508th most common 282.2 per million appears in 62% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
136.0 per million appears in 32% of films
Written text
165.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9ED1

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)