huī

gray; ash; dust

HSK 5 #1311

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 1311th character
Radical ⽕ (86.2)
Strokes 6
Index # 397

Definitions

灰 huī
  1. 1. gray
  2. 2. ash
  3. 3. dust
  4. 4. discouraged
  5. 5. dejected
  6. 6. lime

Stroke order

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Words containing 灰

Word Meaning
dust
to lose heart; to be discouraged
gray; gloomy; pessimistic
ashes of the dead; bone ash
Cinderella; a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
ashes
ashtray
dull gray; murky; drab
fig. to be annihilated; to vanish in a puff of smoke
cigarette ash
box for bone ashes; funerary casket
big bad wolf
lime (calcium oxide)
downhearted; downcast; in despair
cannon fodder
discouraged; downhearted
limestone
dejected; crestfallen; with one's tail between one's legs
ash-colored; colored
suppressed danger returns; a bad force rises again
soot
volcanic ash
every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened
dust; Spodosols (Chinese Soil Taxonomy)
dark gray
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