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橙色chéng sè

orange
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 橙色 | chéngsè |
| 1. n. the color orange | |
| English > Chinese | |
| orange | |
| 1. 名词. 复数 oranges。 | |
| 2. 名词. 橙子,柑橘 | |
| 3. 名词. 橙汁,橘汁饮料 | |
| 4. 形容词. 比较级 more orange,最高级 most orange。 | |
| 5. 形容词. 橙红色的,橘黄色的 | |
| Components | |
| 橙 | chéng |
| 1. orange (the tree) | |
| 2. orange (the fruit) | |
| 3. orange (the color) | |
| 4. Variant of 凳 | |
| 凳 | dèng |
| 1. bench, stool | |
| 凳子zi - bench, stool | |
| 2. (dialectal) chair | |
| 呢ni1 張 凳 真係 好 唔 穩陣。 - This chair is really wobbly. | |
| 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) | |
Pronunciation
chéng sè
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