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粉红色fěn hóng sè
pink
Definitions
粉紅色 | ||
1. pink | ||
Chinese > Chinese | ||
粉红色 | ||
1. 名词. 一種紅中透白的顏色。 | ||
English > Chinese | ||
pink | ||
1. 名词. 粉紅色 | ||
Components | ||
红色 | ||
1. Simplified form of 紅色 | ||
紅色 | hóngsè | |
1. n. the color red | ||
2. adj. red | ||
3. adj. (Mainland) revolutionary | ||
粉 | fěn | |
1. powder | ||
麵粉 是 小麥 做 的 粉。 - Flour is a powder made from wheat. | ||
2. face powder | ||
3. 粉墨登場 - to go on the stage | ||
4. flour | ||
5. (Cantonese, slang) heroin | ||
粉碎 - to smash | ||
粉身--碎骨 - to have one's body smashed to pieces | ||
6. (color) | ||
7. pink | ||
8. 我 把 頭髮 染 成 了 粉 的。 - I dyed my hair pink. | ||
9. white | ||
10. 粉壁 - white wall | ||
11. 粉飾 - to whitewash | ||
12. (dialectal) to whitewash | ||
13. (food) | ||
14. food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc.) | ||
15. 粉條 - Chinese vermicelli | ||
16. 涼粉 - grass jelly | ||
17. 河粉 - he fen noodles | ||
18. bean or sweet potato noodles | ||
19. =====Usage notes===== | ||
20. fan; fanatic | ||
明 粉 - fan of the Ming dynasty | ||
川粉 - fan of Donald Trump | ||
米粉 - fan of Xiaomi | ||
21. (Internet, neologism, slang) follower on a social media platform; subscriber | ||
22. to be a fan of (a person, a group, etc.); to admire | ||
红 | ||
1. Simplified form of 紅 | ||
紅 | hóng | |
1. red | ||
紅色 (hóngsè) - red (color) | ||
紅茶 (hóngchá) - black tea, lit=red tea | ||
紅包 (hóngbāo) - red packet | ||
紅綠.色盲 (hónglǜ sèmáng) - red-green colour blindness | ||
2. (colloquial) popular; in vogue | ||
翻紅 (fānhóng) - to be popular again | ||
邁克爾·^傑克遜 沒有 以前 那麼 紅 了。 (Màikè'ěr Jiékèxùn méiyǒu yǐqián nàme hóng le.) - Michael Jackson is not as popular as he used to be. | ||
3. the red clothes and bunting used on festive occasions | ||
披紅 (pīhóng) - to drape in red silk as a sign of honor or for festivity | ||
4. festive occasion; wedding | ||
紅白喜事 (hóngbáixǐshì) - weddings and funerals | ||
5. (figurative) revolutionary; Communist; Red | ||
紅軍 (hóngjūn) - Red army | ||
又紅又專 (yòuhóngyòuzhuān) - to have a procommunist mindset along with professional skill | ||
6. (business, finance) bonus; extra dividend | ||
分紅 (fēnhóng) - distribute or draw dividends | ||
7. (literary) flower | ||
殘紅 (cánhóng) - fallen petals | ||
8. (literary) beautiful woman | ||
9. (literary) blood | ||
落紅 (luòhóng) - to bleed as an indication of a broken virginity | ||
10. (euphemism, Cantonese, Hakka) blood tofu | ||
豬紅 - pig blood tofu | ||
雞紅 - chicken blood tofu | ||
Hong | ||
女紅gōng (nǚgōng) - the feminine arts (e.g. needlework, sewing, embroidery) | ||
11. (Placename in the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history, northeast of modern Tai'an, Shandong.) | ||
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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