Chinese Word of the Day
灰色huī sè
gray
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 灰色 | huīsè | |
| 1. n. gray (color) | ||
| 你們 有 灰色 套 頭 毛衣 的 現貨 嗎？ - Have you any grey pullovers in stock? | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| gray | ||
| 1. 名词. 灰色 | ||
| Components | ||
| 灰 | huī | |
| 1. ash | ||
| 煙灰 - cigarette ash | ||
| 2. dust | ||
| 電腦 屏幕 上 有 一 層 灰。 - There's a layer of dust on the computer screen. | ||
| 他 吹 乾gān淨 這 本 書 上 的 灰。 - He blew the dust off the book. | ||
| 3. lime; mortar | ||
| 灰泥 - plaster; mortar | ||
| 石灰 - lime | ||
| 灰岩 - limestone | ||
| 4. gray | ||
| 灰色 - gray (color) | ||
| 5. disheartened | ||
| 心灰意冷 - to be disheartened | ||
| 佢 成seng4 個 人 灰 咗。 - | ||
| 6. (telegraphy) the tenth day of a month | ||
| 7. (Cantonese, slang) powdered drug; heroin | ||
| 8. Variant of 烌 | ||
| 9. Used in 灰士 | ||
| 烌 | xiū | |
| 1. (Min Nan) dust; ash | ||
| 色 | sè, shǎi, shè | |
| 1. color; tint; hue; shade | ||
| 顏色 - color | ||
| 顏色shǎi兒r - color | ||
| 紅色 - red | ||
| 四.色.定理 - four color theorem | ||
| 2. look; expression | ||
| 臉色 - facial expression | ||
| 3. scenery; circumstance | ||
| 景色 - scenery | ||
| 夜色 - night scenery | ||
| 4. kind; sort | ||
| 貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification | ||
| 5. feminine charm; beauty | ||
| 姿色 - good looks (of women) | ||
| 6. lust; sexual desire | ||
| 好hào色 - to lust for women | ||
| 色情 - pornography; sexual desire | ||
| 7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous | ||
| 8. theatrical role | ||
| 角jué色 - role; part | ||
| 9. metallic content | ||
| 成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) | ||
| 10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) | ||
| 色shǎi子zi - die | ||
| 11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) | ||
| 色 即 是 空，空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. | ||
| 12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) | ||
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Pronunciation
huī sè
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