Black in Chinese
black · HSK 2
黑色
- 黑 black
- 色 color
我喜欢黑色的衣服。 I like black clothes.
Other ways to say black
More words with 黑 or 色
How do you say black in Chinese?
Black in Chinese is 黑色 (hēi sè). You can also say 黑 (hēi), 青 (qīng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.