| 黑 | hēi | black; dark; abbr. for Heilongjiang 黑龙江 province in northeast China |
| 喉 | hóu | appears as phonetic ho, especially in words taken from Sanskrit; throat; larynx |
| 毛 | máo | hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = 1; 10 yuan or 10 fen 分); surname Mao |
| 角 | jiǎo | angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan; CL:个 |
| 角 | jué | role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scale; surname Jue |
| 燕 | yān | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436); surname Yan |
| 燕 | yàn | swallow (family Hirundinidae) |
