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黄色huáng sè
yellow
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 黄色 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 黃色 | ||
| 黃色 | huángsè | |
| 1. n. yellow | ||
| 2. adj. yellow | ||
| 3. adj. (attributive) pornographic | ||
| 黃色 書籍 - pornographic books | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| yellow | ||
| 1. 形容词. 比较级 yellower，最高级 yellowest。 | ||
| 2. 形容词. 黄的，黄色的 | ||
| pale yellow flowers 淡黄色的花朵 | ||
| a bright yellow waterproof jacket 明黄色的防水夹克 | ||
| 3. 形容词. （轻蔑语）黄皮肤的，黄色人种的 | ||
| 4. 形容词. 胆怯的 | ||
| 5. 名词. 黄，黄色 | ||
| She was dressed in yellow. 她穿着黄衣服。 | ||
| the reds and yellows of the trees 红色和黄色的树叶 | ||
| 6. 动词. （使）变黄 | ||
| Components | ||
| 黄 | ||
| 1. Variant of 黃 | ||
| 黃 | huáng | |
| 1. yellow (colour) | ||
| 黃色 (huángsè) - yellow color | ||
| 2. yolk | ||
| 雙黃wong4-2 白蓮 蓉 月餅 - double yolk and lotus paste mooncake | ||
| 3. Short for 蟹黃 | ||
| 4. yellow; Far East Asian | ||
| 5. (colloquial) pornographic; lewd | ||
| 黃片 (huángpiàn) - adult movie | ||
| 6. (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through | ||
| 某些 公司 真 是shi 絕 了，收 啥 黃 啥。 (Mǒuxiē gōngsī zhēn shi jué le, shōu shá huáng shá.) - Some companies are really sucktastic; whatever they purchase flops. | ||
| 這zhèi.次 旅遊 的 興致zhi 讓 扒手兒r 給 攪 黃 了。 (Zhèi cì lǚyóu de xìngzhi ràng páshǒur gěi jiǎo huáng le.) - The high spirit of this trip was ruined by a pickpocket., M-UIB | ||
| 7. (Cantonese) to let the cat out of the bag (to let a secret be known) | ||
| 8. (Hong Kong, politics) supportive of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement | ||
| 9. (Min Nan) to ripen | ||
| 10. Short for 黃帝 | ||
| 11. Short for 黃河, Yellow River | ||
| 黃 宗-羲 (Huáng Zōngxī) - Huang Zongxi (Chinese intellectual and political theorist that lived during the latter part of the Ming dynasty into the early part of the Qing) | ||
| 黃Ûiⁿ 蕙Hūi-蘭 (Ûiⁿ Hūi-lân) - Oei Hui-lan (a Chinese-Indonesian socialite and First Lady of the Republic of China), MN | ||
| 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
huáng sè
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