| 1 | 黑 | 黑 | hēi | Hei1 | black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing); black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing) | | |
| 2 | 黑暗 | 黑暗 | hēi àn | hei1 an4 | dark; darkly; darkness | | |
| 3 | 黑色 | 黑色 | hēi sè | hei1 se4 | black | | |
| 4 | 黑龙江 | 黑龍江 | hēi lóng jiāng | Hei1 long2 jiang1 | Heilongjiang province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑 , capital Harbin 哈尔滨 ; Heilongjiang river forming the border between northeast China and Russia; Amur river | | |
| 5 | 黑格尔 | 黑格爾 | hēi gé ěr | Hei1 ge2 er3 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher | | |
| 6 | 黑人 | 黑人 | hēi rén | hei1 ren2 | black person; an illegal | | |
| 7 | 黑夜 | 黑夜 | hēi yè | hei1 ye4 | night | | |
| 8 | 黑板 | 黑板 | hēi bǎn | hei1 ban3 | blackboard; Classifiers: 块 | | |
| 9 | 乌黑 | 烏黑 | wū hēi | wu1 hei1 | jet-black; dark | | |
| 10 | 黑影 | 黑影 | hēi yǐng | hei1 ying3 | shadow; darkness; twilight | | |
| 11 | 漆黑 | 漆黑 | qī hēi | qi1 hei1 | pitch-black | | |
| 12 | 黑白 | 黑白 | hēi bái | hei1 bai2 | black and white; right and wrong; monochrome | | |
| 13 | 黑猩猩 | 黑猩猩 | hēi xīng xing | hei1 xing1 xing5 | common chimpanzee | | |
| 14 | 黑洞 | 黑洞 | hēi dòng | hei1 dong4 | (astronomy) black hole | | |
| 15 | 天黑 | 天黑 | tiān hēi | tian1 hei1 | to get dark; dusk | | |
| 16 | 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那 | 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那 | bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà | Bo1 si1 ni2 ya4 he2 Hei1 sai4 ge1 wei2 na4 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | |
| 17 | 黑鹰 | 黑鷹 | hēi yīng | Hei1 Ying1 | Black Hawk (helicoper) | | |
| 18 | 非黑即白 | 非黑即白 | fēi hēi jí bái | fei1 hei1 ji2 bai2 | black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground) | | |
| 19 | 黑屁 | 黑屁 | hēi pì | hei1 pi4 | (slang) bullshit | | |
| 20 | 黑白切 | 黑白切 | hēi bái qiē | hei1 bai2 qie1 | (Tw) heibaiqie, side dish of ingredients selected from a range on display, sliced up and served together on a plate (from Taiwanese 烏白切 , Tai-lo pr. [oo-pe̍h-tshiat], where 烏白 means "as one pleases") | | |
| 21 | 不管白猫黑猫,捉住老鼠就是好猫 | 不管白貓黑貓,捉住老鼠就是好貓 | bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo | bu4 guan3 bai2 mao1 hei1 mao1 , zhuo1 zhu4 lao3 shu3 jiu4 shi4 hao3 mao1 | it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity) | | |
| 22 | 黑暴 | 黑暴 | hēi bào | hei1 bao4 | (neologism 2019) rioting by black-clothed protesters in Hong Kong | | |
| 23 | 扫黑 | 掃黑 | sǎo hēi | sao3 hei1 | to crack down on illegal activities; to fight organized crime | | |
| 24 | 幕后黑手 | 幕後黑手 | mù hòu hēi shǒu | mu4 hou4 hei1 shou3 | malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes; hidden hand | | |
| 25 | 红黑名单 | 紅黑名單 | hóng hēi míng dān | hong2 hei1 ming2 dan1 | whitelist and blacklist, i.e. 红名单 and 黑名单 | | |