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黑 — black; dark; sinister

black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide away

Pinyin
hēi · Hēi
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — hēi, Hēi — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 黑: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

黑 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 黑

Words with 黑 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 黑色hēisèblackHSK 2
  2. 黑板hēibǎnblackboardHSK 3
  3. 黑hēishort name for Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]HSK 5
  4. 黑暗hēi’àndark; darkly; darknessHSK 6
  5. 颠倒黑白diāndǎo-hēibáilit. to invert black and white; to distort the truth deliberatelyHSK 7–9
  6. 黑客hēikèhackerHSK 7–9
  7. 黑马hēimǎdark horse; fig. unexpected winnerHSK 7–9
  8. 黑名单hēimíngdānblacklistHSK 7–9
  9. 漆黑qīhēipitch-blackHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.