HSK 5 · Adjectives

灰 huī “grey” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 灰 means

  1. grey
  2. ash
  3. dust
  4. lime
  5. discouraged
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • dejected

How to say 灰

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale灰huī1st tone, high and level

灰 in a sentence

  1. 阁楼上积了灰。

    Gélóu shàng jī le huī.

    Dust had accumulated in the attic.

    Sentence #793989 from Tatoeba

  2. 我可以借你的灰色西装吗？

    Wǒ kěyǐ jiè nǐ de huīsè xīzhuāng ma?

    Could I borrow your grey suit?

    Sentence #8589287 from Tatoeba

  3. 把架子上的灰尘擦一下。

    Bǎ jiàzi shàng de huīchén cā yíxià.

    Wipe the dust off the shelf.

    Sentence #400338 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 灰 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 灰 (huī) drawn as one shape
灰huīash

灰 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 灰

灰 6 strokes

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灰 (huī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 灰 (huī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 灰

Words with 灰

灰心huīxīn · to lose heart灰尘huīchén · dust

More words: Adjectives

合法héfǎ · lawful合理hélǐ · rational糊涂hútu · muddled慌张huāngzhāng · flustered活跃huóyuè · active激烈jīliè · (of competition or fighting) intense坚决jiānjué · firm坚强jiānqiáng · staunch

FAQs

灰 (huī) means “grey” or “ash”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huī: huī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 灰 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 灰 from the suggestions. Typing hui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
灰 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.