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晦

huì

Character

What 晦 means

1. bound formlast day of a lunar month
2. bound formdark; gloomy
3. literarynight

Words starting with 晦

• 晦气huì qìbad luck; unlucky; calamitous
• 晦涩huì sèdifficult to understand; cryptic
• 晦暗huì àndark and gloomy

Words containing 晦

• 隐晦yǐn huìvague; ambiguous; veiled
• 悖晦bèi huì(colloquial) muddleheaded
• 阴晦yīn huìovercast; gloomy
• 显晦xiǎn huìlight and shade
• 艰深晦涩jiān shēn huì sèabstruse and unfathomable (idiom)
• 遵时养晦zūn shí yǎng huìto bide one's time, waiting for an opportunity to stage a comeback in public life (idiom)
• 风雨如晦fēng yǔ rú huìlit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom); fig. the situation looks grim
• 风雨晦冥fēng yǔ huì míngconditions of extreme adversity (idiom)
• 韬光养晦tāo guāng yǎng huìto conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom); to hide one's light under a bushel

Characters built on 每

These share the phonetic component 每 (měi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 悔huǐ(bound form) to regret; to repent
• 诲huìto teach; to instruct; to induce

Characters that look like 晦

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)…
• 晤wùto meet (socially)
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 烩huìto braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
• 跚shānused in 蹒跚
• 陲chuífrontier

Sounds the same

Read huì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 会can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet…
• 汇to remit; to converge (of rivers); to exchange
• 惠(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顾
• 慧intelligent
• 绘to draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 讳to avoid mentioning; taboo word; name of deceased emperor or superior
• 贿(bound form) bribery
• 蕙Coumarouna odorata
• 溃used in 溃脓; Taiwan pr. kuì
• 卉plants
• 烩to braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
• 诲to teach; to instruct; to induce