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Word and Radical Components of 棕色

The Chinese word 棕色 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
棕色 zōngsè 1. n. brown (color)

棕色 ⇨ 棕 + 色
Component Pinyin Meanings
棕 zōng 1. palm tree
2. palm fiber
3. brown (color, similar to that of fibers made from a palm's leaf sheath)
     棕熊 - brown bear
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)

棕 ⇨ 木 + 宗
Component Pinyin Meanings
木 mù 1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms: 樹
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
     這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
     她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
宗 zōng 1. ancestral temple
2. ancestors or elders of a people
3. family
     宗法 - patriarcal clan system
     宗-周 - Ancestral Zhou, Clan city of Zhou ((Western Zhou dynasty's capital))
4. having the same ancestry
     宗兄 - elder brother
5. school; sect
     禪宗 - Zen
     真 佛 宗 - True Buddha School
6. main purpose
     宗旨 - aim
7. to revere; to respect
8. to follow
9. (historical) (an administrative division in historical Tibet, equivalent to a county)
     當雄 宗 - Damxung dzong
     初步 診斷 有 41 宗 病例，其中 一 宗 死亡 @… w:zh:香港醫學會\香港.醫學會 傳染病 顧問 委員會 主席 @梁.子超，在 本 台 節目《星期六 問責》說，相比 同類型 病毒，例如 中東.呼吸.綜合症 及 沙士，今次 武漢 至今 僅 一 宗 死亡 個案，相信 此 病毒性 肺炎 的 死亡率 不算 高。 - 41 tentative diagnoses, wit

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

宗 ⇨ 宀 + 示
Component Pinyin Meanings
宀 mián 1. a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms
2. a kind of flower
3. (Kangxi radical #40 宀* (“roof”))
4. usage. As a component, often referred to as 寶蓋頭.
示 shì 1. spirit
shí 2. to show; to reveal; to indicate; to notify; to instruct
3. Variant of 置
4. Variant of 祇

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