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Word and Radical Components of 薰衣草色

The Chinese word 薰衣草色 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.


薰衣草色 ⇨ 薰 + 衣 + 草 + 色
Component Pinyin Meanings
xūn 1. fragrance of flowers
2. coumarou, tonka bean
3. (Min) cigarette; smoke
4. to smoke
5. to cauterize
1. (upper) garment; clothes; clothing
     衣服 - clothes
     內衣 - underwear
     睡衣 - night clothes; pajamas
2. coating; covering; skin
     糖衣 - sugar coating
     槍衣 - gun cover
3. membrane; film
4. (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta
yì, yī      錦還huán - to return home in glory
cǎo 1. herbaceous plant; herb; weed; wort; grass; forb
     草地 。 - There is one cow eating grass on the lawn.
     香草 - fragrant herb
     蒿草 - mugwort
2. Used in names of some woody plants
     莽草 - Illicium henryi and Illicium lanceolatum
     舞草 - Codariocalyx motorius
     醉魚草 - Buddleja lindleyana
3. straw
     稻草 - rice straw
     草鞋 - straw sandals
4. (Cantonese, slang) marijuana; cannabis; weed
     deoi2 - to smoke weed
5. (dated) countryside; wilderness
     落草為wéi - to become a bandit in the countryside
6. common; ordinary
     草金魚 - common goldfish
7. (dialectal, chiefly of livestock or poultry) female
8. draft; sketch
9. careless; rough; sloppy
10. to draft
     草擬 - to draft; to draw up (a plan)
11. (calligraphy) Short for 草書 (cursive script (Cursive script (East Asia)))
     狂草 - wild cursive
12.    cursive
13. (chemistry) oxalic
14. Variant of 皂
cǎo 15. (slang) Alternative form of 肏 (fuck)
cǎo 16. (neologism, internet slang) LOL
     中日 雙語) - fuck lmao
17. (neologism, internet slang) hilarious
      。 - Isn't this a bit too hilarious?
sè, shǎi, shè 1. color; tint; hue; shade
     顏色 - color
     顏色shǎir - color
     紅色 - red
     ..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
     hào - to lust for women
     色情 - pornography; sexual desire
7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous
8. theatrical role
     jué - 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)
     shǎizi - die
11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.)
      。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍 (;) cypro (cyproterone acetate)

薰 ⇨ 艹 + 熏
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. grass
2. Variant of 草
xūn 1. smoke; fog
2. warm (used in 熏風)
3. to smoke (same as 薰); to cure meat (same as 燻)
4. to infuse tea with scented flowers (same as 窨)
     Xun
xùn 5. suffocation due to coal gas

衣 ⇨ 亠 +
Component Pinyin Meanings
tóu 1. lid
2. couvercle (Kangxi radical)
1.

草 ⇨ 艹 + 早
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. grass
2. Variant of 草
zǎo, zóu 1. early; in advance; soon
      。 - I woke up early.
      一點 ? - Can you be here a little earlier?
     請問 今天 一會兒r ? - Please could I leave early today?
     (ant, zh, )
2. long ago; for a long time
      。 - He left long ago.
      變壓器 已經 。 - This transformer has burnt out. It should have been replaced a long time ago.
3. (early) morning
      見到 。 - I didn't see him this morning.
4. good morning
     老師 ! - Good morning, teacher!
     (syn, zh, 早安)
5. before; in the past time
     現在 這麼 匆忙 gàn 。 - So now you are in a hurry. What were you doing before?
6. (Taiwan, informal) (zh-short, 早上); a.m.
      - 8:00 a.m.
7. (Hainanese) breakfast

色 ⇨ ⺈ + 巴
Component Pinyin Meanings
1.
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)
      - 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)
     (zh-co, 小巴, minibus)
22. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)
23. (Cantonese) bar (solid object)
     (zh-co, 電巴, busbar, C)
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

早 ⇨ 日 + 十
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. (star) Sun
2. daytime; time between sunrise and sunset
     日班 (rìbān) - day shift
     (ant, zh, )
3. day; twenty-four hours
4. everyday; daily; day-to-day
5. day of the month
     . (sān yuè sì rì) - March 4
     (syn, zh, )
6. some day; some other time
7. former times; previous times; the past
8. time; period; age
9. Short for 日本 (gloss=Japan; Japanese; Nippo-:)
     中日 詞典 (zhōngrì cídiǎn) - Chinese-Japanese dictionary
10. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞 (gloss=Spain)
11. (zh-div, 母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of ltc-l, 日, id=1
12. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang, vulgar, often in abuses) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with
     狗日 (gǒurì) - fucking
13. Only used in (l-self-lite, zh, sc=Hant, 日)磾, a Han dynasty-era personal name borne by Jin Midi (lw, zh, 金日磾) and Ma Midi (lw, zh, 馬日磾, tr=-).
14. Variant of 時
shí 1. ten
2. (figurative) topmost; utmost
     十分 - very
     十全十美 - perfect

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