灰 huī — ash; cinder
灰
Level 1 · Common HSK 5 #397
huī hui1
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
noun
- (会意。从手，从火。意思是火已熄灭，可以用手去拿。本义:火灰)
- ash e.g 灰灭 · 灰榇 · 灰罐 · 灰枵 · 灰火 · 灰末
- dust e.g 路上都是灰 · 灰壤 · 灰朴朴 · 灰头灰脸
- lime
- mortar
adjective
- gray;grey e.g 灰黪 · 灰鼠 · 灰不答 · 灰黑
- disheartened
- junior
- gloomy
- dirty
verb
- burn e.g 灰焚 · 灰死
- take to pieces
Related words
- 灰色 gray
- 灰尘 dust
- 石灰 lime
- 骨灰 bone ash/ashes of the dead
- 灰白 grayish white; ash-gray
- 灰暗 gray and dark/murky
- 灰心 to lose heart
- 死灰复燃 (of something bad) to revive; to make a comeback
- 烟灰 cigarette ash
- 灰烬 ashes
- 灰蒙蒙 dusky
- 骨灰盒 an urn for ashes
- 灰土 dust
- 白灰 lime; whitewash lime
- 心灰意冷 discouraged; dejected; downhearted
- 灰溜溜 dull gray
- 火山灰 volcanic ash
- 烟灰缸 ashtray
- 化为灰烬 to be reduced to ashes
- 死灰 dead ashes; (of spirits) extinguished and despairing; pale and lifeless