Hanzi
Traditional
Simplified

paint/lacquer/CL:道[dao4]/to paint (furniture, walls etc)

Hanzi

Grade

Grade 7

Pinyin

qī, qiè

Bopomofo

ㄑㄧ, ㄑㄧㄝˋ

Jyutping

cat1

Example sentences

漆黑 qīhēi
停電後,屋子裡變得一片漆黑。
停电后,屋子里变得一片漆黑。

After the power outage, the house became pitch black.

照亮 zhàoliàng
月光照亮了漆黑的山路。

The moonlight lit up the pitch-black mountain path.

油漆 yóuqī
牆上的油漆還沒乾。
墙上的油漆还没干。

The paint on the wall hasn't dried yet.

他在牆上塗滿了油漆。
他在墙上涂满了油漆。

He painted the wall full of paint.

他把這面牆漆成白色。
他把这面墙漆成白色。

He painted this wall white.

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