Word and Radical Components of 橙色

The Chinese word 橙色 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
橙色	chéngsè	1. n. the color orange

橙色 ⇨ 橙 + 色

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
橙	chéng	1. orange (the tree)
		2. orange (the fruit)
		3. orange (the color)
		4. Variant of 凳
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)

橙 ⇨ 木 + 登

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.
登	dēng	1. to go up; to climb; to mount; to rise
		2. to publish; to run (a story, an ad, etc.)
		3. (historical) to succeed in imperial examinations
		4. to ripen; to ripe
		5. Variant of 得

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

登 ⇨ 癶 + 豆

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
癶	bō	1. dotted tent
癶		2. (of two feet) to be reverse
豆	dòu	1. pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea
		綠豆 - mung bean
		蠶豆 - fava bean
		豌豆 - pea
		2. bean-shaped object
		咖啡豆 - coffee bean
		3. (historical) stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold m

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
丨		2. be through up and down