黑 hēi
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 黑 — black
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
黑马
hēimǎ
dark horse
Characters in this word
马 mǎ
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 马 — horse
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 这支新队在比赛中成了一匹黑马，大家都没想到。 Zhè zhī xīn duì zài bǐsài zhōng chéng le yì pǐ hēimǎ, dàjiā dōu méi xiǎngdào. This new team became a dark horse in the competition, which nobody expected.
- 他本来不起眼，却在考试中成了黑马。 Tā běnlái bù qǐyǎn, què zài kǎoshì zhōng chéng le hēimǎ. He was unremarkable at first but became the dark horse in the exam.
- 这个年轻选手是今年最大的黑马，拿到了冠军。 Zhè ge niánqīng xuǎnshǒu shì jīnnián zuì dà de hēimǎ, nádào le guànjūn. This young player is this year's biggest dark horse and won the championship.
Related words
- 黑 hēi black; dark
- 黑板 hēibǎn blackboard
- 黑色 hēisè black color; black
- 黑暗 hēi'àn darkness
- 颠倒黑白 diāndǎohēibái to invert right and wrong; to distort the truth
- 黑客 hēikè hacker
- 黑名单 hēimíngdān blacklist
- 漆黑 qīhēi pitch-black; dark as lacquer
- 马路 mǎlù street, road
- 马上 mǎshàng right away, at once
- 马 mǎ horse
- 马虎 mǎhu careless, sloppy