黑帮
hēi bāng
Pinyin

Definition

黑帮
 - 
hēi bāng
  1. bunch of gangsters
  2. criminal gang
  3. organized crime syndicate

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

黑
Hēi
  1. 1 abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēi lóng jiāng]
黑暗
hēi àn
  1. 1 dark
  2. 2 darkly
  3. 3 darkness
黑眼圈
hēi yǎn quān
  1. 1 dark circles (under one's eyes)
  2. 2 black eye
黑社会
hēi shè huì
  1. 1 criminal underworld
  2. 2 organized crime syndicate
黑色
hēi sè
  1. 1 black
天黑
tiān hēi
  1. 1 to get dark
  2. 2 dusk
慕尼黑
Mù ní hēi
  1. 1 München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
抹黑
mǒ hēi
  1. 1 to discredit
  2. 2 to defame
  3. 3 to smear sb's name
  4. 4 to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc)
  5. 5 to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage)
  6. 6 to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)
拉黑
lā hēi
  1. 1 to add sb to one's blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc)
  2. 2 abbr. for 拉到黑名單|拉到黑名单
摸黑
mō hēi
  1. 1 to grope about in the dark
晒黑
shài hēi
  1. 1 to sunbathe
  2. 2 to tan
  3. 3 to get sunburnt
  4. 4 to expose unfair practices (on a consumer protection website)
漆黑
qī hēi
  1. 1 pitch-black
腹黑
fù hēi
  1. 1 (slang) outwardly kind but inwardly evil
  2. 2 two-faced
变黑
biàn hēi
  1. 1 to darken
起早贪黑
qǐ zǎo tān hēi
  1. 1 to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
黑乎乎
hēi hū hū
  1. 1 variant of 黑糊糊[hēi hū hū]
黑人
hēi rén
  1. 1 black person
  2. 2 an illegal
黑夜
hēi yè
  1. 1 night
黑客
hēi kè
  1. 1 hacker (computing) (loanword)
黑幕
hēi mù
  1. 1 hidden details
  2. 2 dirty tricks
  3. 3 dark secrets

Idioms (11)

一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
天下乌鸦一般黑
tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēi
  1. 1 all crows are black (idiom)
  2. 2 evil people are bad all over the world
数黄道黑
shǔ huáng dào hēi
  1. 1 to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels
  2. 2 also written 數黑論黃|数黑论黄[shǔ hēi lùn huáng]
数黑论白
shǔ hēi lùn bái
  1. 1 to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels
  2. 2 also written 數黑論黃|数黑论黄[shǔ hēi lùn huáng]
数黑论黄
shǔ hēi lùn huáng
  1. 1 to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels
昏天黑地
hūn tiān hēi dì
  1. 1 lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. pitch dark
  3. 3 to black out
  4. 4 disorderly
  5. 5 troubled times
近朱者赤，近墨者黑
jìn zhū zhě chì , jìn mò zhě hēi
  1. 1 those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom)
  2. 2 you are the product of your environment
颠倒黑白
diān dǎo hēi bái
  1. 1 lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately
  2. 2 to misrepresent the facts
  3. 3 to invert right and wrong
黎明前的黑暗
lí míng qián de hēi àn
  1. 1 darkness comes before dawn
  2. 2 things can only get better (idiom)
黑天半夜
hēi tiān bàn yè
  1. 1 lit. the black sky of midnight
  2. 2 very late at night (idiom)
黑白不分
hēi bái bù fēn
  1. 1 can't tell black from white (idiom); unable to distinguish wrong from right

Sample Sentences

我想那时候更疯狂。 各色人物都来上海滩谋生 。洋人在租界大兴土木，马路上黄包车、电车四处冲，黑帮流氓到处厮杀。 你想想那场面！
wǒ xiǎng nà shíhou gèng fēngkuáng 。 gèsè rénwù dōu lái Shànghǎi tān móushēng 。yángrén zài zūjiè dàxīngtǔmù ，mǎlù shàng huángbāochē 、diànchē sìchù chōng ，hēibāng liúmáng dàochù sīshā 。 nǐ xiǎng xiang nà chǎngmiàn ！
I think it was even crazier back then. All kinds of characters came to seek their fortune in Shanghai. Foreigners built all kinds of stuff in the Concessions, and there were rickshaws on the roads, and streetcars rushing all over the place. Underworld thugs were killing people right and left. Imagine that!
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我们就是黑帮
wǒmen jiùshì hēibāng
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黑帮就是我们
hēibāng jiùshì wǒmen
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