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金色jīn sè
gold
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 金色 | jīnsè | |
| 1. n. gold colour | ||
| 金色 刺繡 - gold embroidery | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| gold | ||
| 1. 名词. 金(化學元素，原子序為79，化學符號為Au) | ||
| 2. 名词. 金幣，財富 | ||
| 3. 名词. 金色，金黃色 | ||
| 4. 名词. 金牌 | ||
| 5. 形容词. 金的，含金的 | ||
| 6. 形容词. 金色的 | ||
| 7. 形容词. 金唱片獎的(銷售逾百萬張的) | ||
| Components | ||
| 金 | jīn | |
| 1. (obsolete) copper (Cu) | ||
| 2. metal | ||
| 合金 - alloy | ||
| 3. metalware | ||
| 4. gold (Au) | ||
| 金 的 顏色 和 黃銅 很 相xiāng似。 - Gold is similar in color to brass. | ||
| 5. golden; blond | ||
| 金髮 - blond | ||
| 他 被 獎勵 了 一塊 金 錶biǎo。 - He received a golden watch as a prize. | ||
| 6. (by extension) money; material wealth | ||
| 現金 - cash | ||
| 資金 - funds | ||
| 金錢 - currency | ||
| 7. (historical) ancient currency unit | ||
| 8. (historical) gong or other metalware for signalling commands in the military | ||
| 金鼓齊鳴 - the gongs and drums of war sound out in unison | ||
| 9. respectful; precious | ||
| 金玉良言 - precious advice | ||
| 10. (zh-used in, 金城, gloss=impregnable city) | ||
| 金城湯池 - strongly fortified city | ||
| 11. Short for 金星, gloss=Venus | ||
| 12. one of the eight kinds of instruments (八音) | ||
| 13. one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行) | ||
| 14. (historical) The Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) | ||
| 15. (historical) (syn of zh, 後金), the Jurchen Later Jin state (1616–1636) | ||
| 金 聖-歎 - Jin Shengtan (Chinese literary critic) | ||
| 金 焰 - Jin Yan (Chinese actor) | ||
| 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. (zh-no-solo) look; expression | ||
| 臉色 - facial expression | ||
| 3. (zh-no-solo) 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
jīn sè
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