| 黑 | ||
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| 黑 (U+9ED1) "black" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | hēi | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄏㄟ | |
| Wade–Giles: | hei1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | haak1, hak1 | |
| Jyutping: | haak1, hak1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | コク koku (on'yomi) くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 흑 heuk | |
| Hán-Việt: | hắc | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 黒/くろ kuro | |
| Hangul: | 검을 geomeu | |
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Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.