灰
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ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected
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Dict coverage rank #459 U+7070
How 灰 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The remains of a fire 火; 火 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
ashes · Heisig RSH #172
火 fire + fireplace + by one’s side
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 灰 as their sound component
These characters all use 灰 (huī) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灰 sound component | huī | ashes; dust; lime, mortar |
| 恢 | huī | to restore, to recover; great, immense, vast |
| 盔 | kuī | helmet; bowl, basin |
| 诙 | huī | to tease, to joke with; to ridicule, to mock |
| 咴 | huī | to neigh, to whinny |
Words containing 灰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生石灰 | shēng shí huī | calcium oxide CaO; quicklime |
| 火山灰 | huǒ shān huī | volcanic ash |
| 灰白色 | huī bái sè | ash gray |
| 火山灰土 | huǒ shān huī tǔ | andosol (soil taxonomy) |
| 灰色地带 | huī sè dì dài | gray area |
| 石灰石 | shí huī shí | limestone |
| 红头灰雀 | hóng tóu huī què | (bird species of China) red-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala) |
| 面如灰土 | miàn rú huī tǔ | ashen-faced (idiom) |
| 灰水 | huī shuǐ | gray water |
| 灰心 | huī xīn | to lose heart; to be discouraged |
| 放射性落下灰 | fàng shè xìng luò xià huī | radioactive fallout |
| 灰白 | huī bái | ash-colored |
| 石灰华 | shí huī huá | travertine (geology); tufa (a type of banded marble) |
| 石灰 | shí huī | lime (calcium oxide) |
| 草木灰 | cǎo mù huī | plant ash |
| 灰色 | huī sè | gray; ash gray; grizzly; pessimistic; gloomy; dispirited; ambiguous |
| 心灰意冷 | xīn huī yì lěng | discouraged; downhearted |
| 灰头土脸 | huī tóu tǔ liǎn | head and face filthy with grime (idiom); covered in dirt; dejected and depressed |
| 灰头灰雀 | huī tóu huī què | (bird species of China) grey-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythaca) |
| 灰度 | huī dù | grayscale |