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扫黑
sǎohēi
Main
English Definitionto crack down on illegal activities; to fight organized crime
Simplified Script扫黑
Traditional Script掃黑
Pinyinsǎohēi
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄙㄠˇ ㄏㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping)sou3haak1
Word Decomposition
扫sǎoto sweep
黑hēiblack; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (something) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing); abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龙江

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Words With Same Head Word    
扫描sǎomiáoto scan
扫除sǎochúto sweep; to clean with a brush; to sweep away (often fig.)
扫荡sǎodàngto root out; to wipe out
扫地sǎodìto sweep the floor; to reach rock bottom; to be at an all-time low
扫射sǎoshèto rake with machine gunfire; to strafe; to machine-gun down
Words With Same Tail Word    
漆黑qīhēipitch-black
天黑tiānhēito get dark; dusk
慕尼黑mù ní hēiMünchen or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
波黑bōhēiabbr. for 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那 Bosnia and Herzegovina
乌黑wūhēijet-black; dark
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