The Blankness of Black

Black is a color symbol associated with the feeling of darkness, non-conformity, mystery and death. Though it has a conflicting connotation either positive and negative meaning. You will find everything you need here to decorate your own room, unique and fun gift ideas on this page!

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The color Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like "black cat" or "black paint".

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1. In some Middle Eastern countries, women often worn black by Muslim and Jews.
2. Many European classical music performers wears black dress for a concert or recital.
3. In Philosophy, the term black and white meaning that the issue is at hand having two clear opposing sides with no middle ground, also called as dichotomized.
4. The national rugby union team of New Zealand is called the All Blacks, in reference to what they are often wearing black outfits in their game.
5. It is the counterpart color of the color white as a symbol of mourning and bereavement in some Western countries societies.
6. The Hindu deity Krishna means the black one.
7. In superstitious belief, when you see a black cat while crossing the street it means good or bad luck.
8. In the Japanese culture, Black is associated with honor, not death with the white color being associated with death.
9. In Western fashion, black is considered as stylish, sexy, elegant and powerful.
10. The Black death is also known as the Black Plague, was a pandemic in Europe that killed tens of millions of people.
11. The term 'blacklist' refers to a list of undesirable persons or entities (to be placed on the list is to be "blacklisted").
12. Black pigments includes carbon black, charcoal black, ebony, ivory black and onyx.
13. A Black tea in Western culture is also known as crimson tea in Chinese and culturally influenced languages like hngch; Japanese kōcha; Korean hongcha.
14. In Billiards, if the black eight ball sunk before all the others the player are out and loses.
15. The Rastafari movement sees black as beautiful.

The word black comes from the Old English blc from Proto-Germanic related to Old Saxon blak "ink", its older form.

Black in Asian Language

Language/Country, Romanized Translation

Mandarin, Heise

Russian -(Chernyi)

Japanese -(Burakku)

Indonesian - Hitam

Korean -(geomjeong)

Malay - Hitam

Filipino -itim

Thai -(Si da)

Hindi -(Kala)

Turkish - Siyah

Macedonian -(Crna)

Vietnamese - Den

Black in African Languages

Swahili - Nyeusi

Afrikaan - Swart

Black in European Languages

Croatian - Black

Greek -(Mavro)

Bulgarian -(Cheren)

Latvian - Melns

Ukrainian -(Chornyy)

Albanian - Zi

Catalan - Negre

Czech - Cerna

Danish - Sort

Dutch - Zwart

Estonian -Musta

Finnish -Musta

French - Black

Galician - Black

German - Schwarz

Hungarian - Fekete

Icelandic - Svartur

Irish - Black

Italian - Black

Latvian - Melns

Lithuanian - Juodosios

Maltese - Iswed

Norwegian - Black

Polish - Black

Portuguese - Black

Romanian - Negru

Serbian - (Crni)

Slovak - Cierna

Spanish - Negro

Swedish - Svart

Welsh -Du

Black in North America/US Territory

Haiti - Nwa

• As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. - Maya Angelou
• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. - Mae West
• A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Max
• I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me. - Oprah Winfrey
• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. - Stephen Hawking
• You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. - Janis Joplin