灰 — Chinese character
灰
huī
ashes; dust; lime, mortar
- Pinyin
- huī
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 火
- Formation
- ideographic — The remains of a fire 火; 火 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 灰 as a kanji
Common words with 灰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灰色 | huī sè | gray; ash gray |
| 灰尘 (灰塵) | huī chén | dust |
| 骨灰 | gǔ huī | bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains |
| 灰烬 (灰燼) | huī jìn | ashes |
| 灰心 | huī xīn | to lose heart; to be discouraged |
| 灰暗 | huī àn | dull gray; drab |
| 石灰岩 | shí huī yán | limestone |
| 石灰 | shí huī | lime (calcium oxide) |
| 火山灰 | huǒ shān huī | volcanic ash |
| 灰飞烟灭 (灰飛煙滅) | huī fēi yān miè | lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated |
| 石灰石 | shí huī shí | limestone |
| 死灰复燃 (死灰復燃) | sǐ huī fù rán | lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence; sth malevolent returns to haunt one |
English words written with 灰
灰 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 6
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.