Chinese Word of the Day
薰衣草色xūn yī cǎo sè
lavender
Definitions
| English > Chinese | ||
| lavender | ||
| 1. 薰衣草 | ||
| 2. 薰衣草乾燥过的花 | ||
| 3. 薄紫色 | ||
| 4. 淡紫色 | ||
| Components | ||
| 薰 | xūn | |
| 1. fragrance of flowers | ||
| 2. coumarou, tonka bean | ||
| 3. (Min) cigarette; smoke | ||
| 4. to smoke | ||
| 5. to cauterize | ||
| 衣 | yī | |
| 1. (upper) garment; clothes; clothing | ||
| 衣服 - clothes | ||
| 內衣 - underwear | ||
| 睡衣 - night clothes; pajamas | ||
| 2. coating; covering; skin | ||
| 糖衣 - sugar coating | ||
| 槍衣 - gun cover | ||
| 3. membrane; film | ||
| 4. (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta | ||
| 衣yì錦還huán鄉 - to return home in glory | ||
| 草 | cǎo | |
| 1. herbaceous plant; herb; weed; wort; grass; forb | ||
| 草地 上 有 一 頭 牛 在 吃 草。 - There is one cow eating grass on the lawn. | ||
| 香草 - fragrant herb | ||
| 蒿草 - mugwort | ||
| 2. Used in names of some woody plants | ||
| 莽草 - Illicium henryi and Illicium lanceolatum | ||
| 舞草 - Codariocalyx motorius | ||
| 醉魚草 - Buddleja lindleyana | ||
| 3. straw | ||
| 稻草 - rice straw | ||
| 草鞋 - straw sandals | ||
| 4. (Cantonese, slang) marijuana; cannabis; weed | ||
| 㨃deoi2 草 - to smoke weed | ||
| 5. (dated) countryside; wilderness | ||
| 落草為wéi寇 - to become a bandit in the countryside | ||
| 6. common; ordinary | ||
| 草金魚 - common goldfish | ||
| 7. (dialectal, chiefly of livestock or poultry) female | ||
| 8. draft; sketch | ||
| 9. careless; rough; sloppy | ||
| 10. to draft | ||
| 草擬 - to draft; to draw up (a plan) | ||
| 11. (calligraphy) Short for 草書, cursive script (grass script) | ||
| 狂草 - wild cursive | ||
| 12. cursive | ||
| 13. (chemistry) oxalic | ||
| 14. Variant of 皂 | ||
| 15. (slang) Alternative form of 肏 (fuck) | ||
| 16. (neologism, internet slang) LOL | ||
| 草（中日 雙語） - fuck lmao | ||
| 17. (neologism, internet slang) hilarious | ||
| 這 也 太 草 了 吧。 - Isn't this a bit too hilarious? | ||
| 皂 | zào | |
| 1. black | ||
| 不分青紅皂白 - (literally) to not distinguish between blue-green, red, black and white. | ||
| 2. Short for 皂斗, acorn | ||
| 3. Short for 皂莢, (vern, Chinese honey locust) | ||
| 4. soap | ||
| Synonyms: 肥皂 | ||
| 香皂 - scented soap | ||
| Synonyms: 差役 | ||
| 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
xūn yī cǎo sè
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