灰 huī

1. huī adjective gray
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Color
   Notes: (Guoyu '灰' adj 1)
2. huī noun ash
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: The remains after burning something (Guoyu '灰' n 1; Unihan '灰')
3. huī adjective discouraged; dejected
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 沮丧; for example, the idiom 心灰意冷 (Guoyu '灰' adj 2)
4. huī noun mortar; lime
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: An abbreviation for 石灰 (Guoyu '灰' n 3; Unihan '灰')
5. huī noun dust
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 尘土 (Guoyu '灰' n 2; Unihan '灰')
6. huī verb to burn
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 燃烧 (Guoyu '灰' v 1)
7. huī verb to disintegrate; to shatter
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 碎裂 (Guoyu '灰' v 2)

Contained in

• 灰褐色 a gray-brown color
• 灰头鹦鹉(灰頭鸚鵡) grey-headed parakeet (Psittacula finschii)
• 灰不喇唧 dull gray; gray and loathsome
• 灰心丧气(灰心喪氣) downhearted; downcast; in despair
• 灰背鸫(灰背鶇) grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum)
• 灰尾漂鹬(灰尾漂鷸) grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes)
• 灰熊 grizzly bear
• 灰獴 gray mongoose (Herpestes edwardsii)
• 灰赤杨(灰赤楊) gray alder (Alnus incana); speckled alder
• 心灰意冷 downhearted and dejected
• 灰背伯劳(灰背伯勞) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
• 淡灰眉岩鹀(淡灰眉岩鵐) rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
• 劫灰 burned to ash
• 熟石灰 slaked lime; hydrated lime
• 灰不溜丢(灰不溜丟) gloomy and dull; boring and gray; unpleasantly murky
• 灰喉针尾雨燕(灰喉針尾雨燕) silver-backed needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)
• 灰腹绣眼鸟(灰腹繡眼鳥) oriental white-eye (Zosterops palpebrosus)
• 粉饰灰泥(粉飾灰泥) stucco
• 灰岩残丘(灰巖殘丘) mogote (steep-sided pointed hill in karst landform)
• 珠灰 pearl gray
• 灰岩鹪鹛(灰岩鷦鶥) limestone wren-babbler (Napothera crispifrons)
• 灰背椋鸟(灰背椋鳥) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
• 抹灰工 plasterer
• 脊髓灰质炎(脊髓灰質炎) poliomyelitis
• 骨灰龛(骨灰龕) columbarium
• 灰卷尾 ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
• 灰腹地莺(灰腹地鶯) grey-bellied tesia (Tesia cyaniventer)
• 扒灰 incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
• 灰菜 fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
• 灰头鸫(灰頭鶇) chestnut thrush (Turdus rubrocanus)
• 面如灰土 ashen-faced
• 灰奇鹛(灰奇鶥) grey sibia (Heterophasia gracilis)
• 豆秸灰 withered bean stalks
• 暗灰 dark gray
• 灰鹤(灰鶴) common crane
• 南灰伯劳(南灰伯勞) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
• 灰蓝山雀(灰藍山雀) azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus)
• 灰头鹀(灰頭鵐) black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala)
• 灰头薮鹛(灰頭藪鶥) red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea)
• 吹死灰 sends the cinders flying
• 昏灰 dimgray; dim gray
• 乌灰鹞(烏灰鷂) Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus)
• 葭灰 gray reeds
• 灰背燕尾 slaty-backed forktail (Enicurus schistaceus)
• 灰心 to lose heart; to be discouraged
• 灰胸薮鹛(灰胸藪鶥) Emei Shan liocichla (Liocichla omeiensis)
• 灰霾 dust haze; dust storm
• 石灰岩 limestone
• 灰蒙蒙 dusky; overcast (of weather)
• 放射性落下灰 radioactive fallout

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泥灰

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• 卷十六 志第六 律曆上 Volume 16 Treatises 6: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 14
• 卷一百二十四　列傳第六十二:　忠義四 馬慶祥 商衡 朮甲脫魯灰 楊達夫 馮延登 烏古孫仲端 烏古孫奴申 蒲察琦 蔡八兒 溫敦昌孫 完顏絳山 畢資倫 郭蝦蟆 Volume 124 Biographies 62: Zhong Yisi, Ma Qingxiang, Shang Heng, Paijiatuoluhui, Yang Dafu, Feng Yandeng, Wugusunzhongduan, Wugusunnushen, Pu Chaqi, Cai Baer, Wendun Changsun, Wanyan Jiangshan, Bi Zilun, Guo Xiama History of Jin 金史 — count: 13
• 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 13
• 卷十一 志第一 律志序 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Lu Treatises Preface Book of Song 宋書 — count: 11
• 卷16　志第11 律曆上 Volume 16 Treatises 11: Measures and the Calendar 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 10
• 卷六十七　列傳第五:　石顯 桓赧弟:散達 烏春附:溫敦蒲刺 臘醅弟麻產 鈍恩 留可 阿疏 奚王回離保 Volume 67 Biographies 5: Shi Xian, Huan Nan and younger brother: Sanda, Wu Chun and relative: Wendun Puci, Lapei dimachan, Dun En, Liu Ke, A Shu, Xiwang Huilibao History of Jin 金史 — count: 8
• 內儲說上七術第三十 Chapter 30: A Collection of Sayings I Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 7
• 卷五十五 Scroll 55 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 5
• 第六十九回 Chapter 69 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 5

Collocations

• 灰灭 (灰滅) 盡種灰滅 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十一 李陳龐陳橋列傳 Volume 51: Biographies of Li, Chen, Pang, Chen, Qiao — count: 13
• 土灰 (土灰) 土灰极荣 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十上 文苑列傳 Volume 80a: Biographies of Writers 1 — count: 11
• 弃灰 (棄灰) 而殷法刑棄灰 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 內儲說上七術第三十 Chapter 30: A Collection of Sayings I — count: 10
• 灰飞 (灰飛) 律氣應則灰飛 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十六 志第六 律曆上 Volume 16 Treatises 6: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 6
• 灰聚 (灰聚) 人及風所動者其灰聚 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 6
• 灰身 (灰身) 臣雖灰身破族 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十五 魏書二十五 辛毗楊阜高堂隆傳 Volume 25: Book of Wei 25 - Biographies of Xin Pi, Yang Fu, and Gaotang Long — count: 6
• 灰散 (灰散) 其為氣所動者其灰散 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 5
• 扬灰 (揚灰) 或如揚灰 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 5
• 葭莩灰 (葭莩灰) 以葭莩灰抑其內端 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 4
• 灰重 (灰重) 土灰重而衡低 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 3