Read Edit View history 黛 dài blacken eyebrows Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the meaning and 代 represents the sound. Components 黑 黑 Meaning component hēi black 代 代 Sound component dài replace Historical Pronunciations Middle ChineseOld ChineseZhengzhangl'ɯːɡsUnicodedhə̀i Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang