黑

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/黑

Glyph origin
– a person with a tattooed face, depicting penal tattooing, one of the  of ancient China. In the bronze inscriptions from the and  periods, dots were sometimes added around, leading  to erroneously interpret the character as an  — fire burning under a chimney, causing it to become black from the smoke.

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with.

The sense of “hack” is a.

Definitions

 * 1) black
 * 2) dark; darkness
 * 3) evening; night
 * 4) illegal; clandestine; secret; shady
 * 5)  to illegally reside (in a country)
 * 6) sinister; evil
 * 7)  to hack
 * 8)  to libel
 * 9) one who libels
 * 10)  hater; anti-fan
 * 11)  unlucky; unfortunate
 * 12)  pig; pork
 * 1)  to illegally reside (in a country)
 * 2) sinister; evil
 * 3)  to hack
 * 4)  to libel
 * 5) one who libels
 * 6)  hater; anti-fan
 * 7)  unlucky; unfortunate
 * 8)  pig; pork
 * 1) one who libels
 * 2)  hater; anti-fan
 * 3)  unlucky; unfortunate
 * 4)  pig; pork
 * 1)  unlucky; unfortunate
 * 2)  pig; pork

Kanji

 * 1) black

Noun

 * 1) west