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Word and Radical Components of 使眼色

The Chinese word 使眼色 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
使眼色 shǐ yǎnsè 1. v. to tip somebody the wink; to wink at somebody; to give someone a meaningful glance

使眼色 ⇨ 使 + 眼 + 色
Component Pinyin Meanings
使 shǐ 1. to order (somebody to do something); to send (somebody)
2. (literary) to put (people) to work
3. to let; to make; to cause to
     這 突如其來 的 消息 使 他 大為wéi 震驚。 - This sudden news caused him great shock.
4. to use; to employ
     呢 把 刀 幾 好 使sai2 - This knife is pretty good to use.
5. to play; to play with; to resort to; to dally with
     使.心眼 -
6. to indulge
     使.性子zi - to get angry; to lose one's temper
7. (literary) if
8. (Cantonese, always negated or interrogative) need to do something; have to
     你 唔使 攞lo2 咁 多！ - You don't need to get so much!
     你 陣間 使 唔 使 落街 買 嘢 呀aa3？ - Do you need to use head out to buy things later?
     仲 使 講 嘅ge2？ - Surely it goes without saying.
9. (Cantonese, always negated or interrogative) need something; require; want strongly
10. (Quanzhou Min Nan, vulgar) to fuck
shǐ, shì 11. to be sent as an envoy
12. envoy; messenger
     來使 - envoy from another country
眼 yǎn 1. (anatomy) eye
2. sight; vision
     瞪 了 他 一 眼 - to give him a stare
     一 眼 睇 嗮 - to be able to see everything in a glance
3. eyelet; aperture; hole; opening
4. tempo in the opera
     一板三眼 - one strong beat and three weak beats in the four-beat rhythm
5. territory in game Go (board game).
6. mesh
7. key point; critical moment
8. (Go) trap
9. (Cantonese, mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand
10. (Cantonese)
11. (Cantonese)
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)

使 ⇨ 亻 + 吏
Component Pinyin Meanings
亻 rén 1. Side form of the person (人) radical.
2. usage. Only used as a component in a character. Referred to as 單人旁.
吏 lì 1. (historical) government official
2. (historical) petty official

眼 ⇨ 目 + 艮
Component Pinyin Meanings
目 mù 1. (literary or Min) eye
     耳目 (ěrmù) - ears and eyes; spies
     目睭 (ba̍k-chiu) - eye, MN
2. item; entry
     賬目 (zhàngmù) - entry
3. list; catalogue; table of contents
     目錄 (mùlù) - catalogue
4. target; goal
     目標 (mùbiāo) - target
     目的dì (mùdì) - target, goal
5. (taxonomy) order
6. (classical) to call; to address (of people's names and titles)
     Synonyms: 稱呼
艮 gèn 1. stopping
gěn 2. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountains. (☶)
3. (dialectal) blunt; straightforward
4. (dialectal) tough, chewy

色 ⇨ ⺈ + 巴
Component Pinyin Meanings
⺈ 1.
巴 bā 1. (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
2. to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
3. (Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.)
     尾巴ba - tail
     下巴ba - chin
4. (Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.)
     泥巴ba - mud
5. to cling to; to stick to
6. (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuan, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
7. (Beijing, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
8. (Sichuan) to suit; to fit
9. (Sichuan) to follow
10. (Sichuan) to be intimate
11. (Sichuan) to involve; to implicate
12. (Sichuan) to kiss up; to curry favour
13. (Sichuan) to subsidize
14. (Sichuan) to infect; to contract
15. (dialectal Mandarin, including, Beijing, Shandong, Xinjiang) to sew; to stitch on
16. (Southwestern Mandarin, ;, Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan) dried object
17. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese)
     打 佢 一 巴 - to give him a slap
18. (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuan) along
19. (historical) (place, zh, ancient state, in modern-day, p/Sichuan, t1=Ba)
20. eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
21. Short for 巴士, bus
     小巴 - minibus -
22. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)
23. (Cantonese) bar (solid object)
     電巴 - busbar -
24. Short for 巴勒斯坦, Palestine
25. Short for 巴基斯坦, Pakistan
26. Short for 巴拿馬, Panama
27. Short for 巴哈馬, The Bahamas
28. Short for 巴拉圭, Paraguay
29. Variant of 芭
30. Variant of 笆
31. Variant of 粑

吏 ⇨ 丈 + 口
Component Pinyin Meanings
丈 zhàng 1. A unit of measurement.
2.    The zhang, a traditional Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (尺)
3.    The mainland zhang, a unit of length standardized in 1984 as 3 meters.
4.    Synonyms: 市丈
5.    The Taiwanese zhang, a unit of length standardized as 3 meters, identical to the Japanese jō.
6.    The Hong Kong jeuhng, standardized as 3.71475 meters.
7. to survey (land); to measure
8. gentleman; man; husband
     丈夫 - husband
口 kǒu 1. (anatomy) mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity
     漱 漱 你 的 口。 (Shù shù nǐ de kǒu.) - Rinse your mouth out.
     這 話 出自 你 的 口，聽來 令人 奇怪。 (Zhè huà chūzì nǐ de kǒu, tīnglái lìngrén qíguài.) - This sounds strange in your mouth.
2. entrance; opening; mouth (of an object)
     入口 (rùkǒu) - entrance
     出口 (chūkǒu) - exit
     門口 (ménkǒu) - doorway
3. gateway
     張家口 (Zhāngjiākǒu) - Zhangjiakou
     口北 (Kǒuběi) - the area beyond the Great Wall
     口蘑 (kǒumó) - St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa)
4. hole; cut
     口子zi (kǒuzi) - hole
     傷口 (shāngkǒu) - wound
5. port
     電腦 端口 (shāngkǒu) - computer port
     Csēi口 (sēikǒu) - USB-C port
6. perimeter
     人口 (rénkǒu) - population
     戶口 (hùkǒu) - hukou
7. government organ; department
     三 口 之 家 (sān kǒu zhī jiā) - a family of three
     我 可以 吃 一 口 嗎？ (Wǒ kěyǐ chī yī kǒu ma?) - Can I have a bite?
8. (neologism, slang) to fellate
9. Variant of 名

巴 ⇨ 巳 + 丨
Component Pinyin Meanings
巳 sì 1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
2. snake (蛇) of Chinese zodiac
3. Variant of 已
丨 gǔn 1. line
2. be through up and down