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The Chinese word for gray is
灰色

huī sè



gray

Chinese Definition


gray
     1. 名词. 灰色
Components
     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
     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)



Translations for and their definitions

灰色
     1. n. gray (color)
           你們 有 灰色 套 頭 毛衣 的 現貨 嗎? - Have you any grey pullovers in stock?


     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


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