Hēi

1. Chinese 101 张欣 ZhāngXīn (Nathan Lucero) 李森Lǐ Sēn (Vincent Van Groenou) 周毅然Yiran Zhou, Instructor Hēi

2. Stroke Order

3. A little Information • - Hei (黑) is the chinese character for “Black”. • -Originally, its radical is indicated to be the fire radical located beneath what seems to be a window or a vent. a) In fact, its current form is seen using huo (火). Which literally means “fire” b) Despite using the radical of fire, hei (黑)is often associated with darker shades of color or the dark side of human nature.

4. Words To know • -These are words associated with hei (黑): a) Hei An (黑 暗): which means “Dark” or “Darkness” b) Hei Shi (黑 市): Black Market c) Tai Yang Hei Zi (太 阳 黑 子): Sunspot d) Hei Xia Zi (黑匣子):(Airplane) Black Box e) Bei Hei Guo (背 黑 锅): To be unjustly blamed f) Hei Ke (黑 客):Computer hacker or “The Matrix” movie g) Hei Xin (黑 信): To Blackmail

5. Usage In Other Media Tensai Okamura’s anime television series Darker Than Black (Daka Zan Burakku- Kuro No Keiyakusha) stars a protagonist who goes by the name “Hei”, who also goes by the name Ri Shenshun (李 舜生) while carrying a dual persona as both a syndicate and a Chinese foreign exchange student.

6. IT’S GAME TIME! 黑色剪影 (Hēisè jiǎnyǐng.) means “black colored silhouette” in Mandarin. See if you can identify the following Silhouettes using the Mandarin Language. Use the word hēisè at the beginning of each object and identify it using a complete sentence. Don’t forget to use the correct measure word. For example: “Zhè shìyīzhihēisè de gǒu”。