黎
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(literary) black; dark; many; multitude
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 黍 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 黎
- Common rank
- #1,442
- Unicode
- U+9ECE
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 黎 is formed
Components 黍
? unknown part
How to remember it
host · Heisig RSH #2024
Rumpelbrella + bound up + eyedropper
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 黎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白沙黎族自治县 | Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan | |
| 乐东黎族自治县 | Ledong Lizu autonomous county, Hainan | |
| 昌江黎族自治县 | Changjiang Lizu autonomous county, Hainan | |
| 巴黎大学 | University of Paris | |
| 陵水黎族自治县 | Lingshui Lizu Autonomous County, Hainan | |
| 黎明时分 | daybreak; at the crack of dawn | |
| 苏黎世联邦理工学院 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university | |
| 哥斯大黎加 | (Tw) Costa Rica | |
| 黎明前的黑暗 | darkness comes before dawn; things can only get better (idiom) | |
| 哥斯达黎加 | Costa Rica | |
| 黎平县 | Liping, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州[… | |
| 黎城县 | Licheng, a county in Changzhi City 長治市|长治市[Chang2 zhi4 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 巴黎圣母院 | Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France) | |
| 巴黎公社 | Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic | |
| 保亭黎族苗族自治县 | Baoting Li and Miao autonomous county, Hainan | |
| 的黎波里 | Tripoli, capital of Libya; Tripoli, city in north Lebanon | |
| 琼中黎族苗族自治县 | Qiongzhong Li and Miao autonomous county, Hainan | |
| 木华黎 | Muqali or Mukhali (1170-1223), military commander under Genghis Khan 成吉思汗[Cheng2 ji2 si1 h… | |
| 黎川县 | Lichuan, a county in Fuzhou City 撫州市|抚州市[Fu3 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 巴黎绿 | Paris green; copper(II) acetoarsenite Cu(C2H3O2)2·3Cu(AsO2)2 |
Sound family
These characters use 黎 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黎 sound part | many, numerous; black; surname | |
| 藜 | pigweed; Chenopodium album |