The Chinese word for color is
颜色
yán sè
Chinese Definition
| color | |
| 1. 色彩 | |
| 2. 涂色 | |
| 3. 染料 | |
| 4. 脸色 | |
| 5. 色带 | |
| 6. 姿态 | |
| 7. 藉口 | |
| 8. 生动 | |
| 9. 赋与特色 | |
| 10. 带色 | |
| 11. 颜色 | |
| 12. 色 | |
| 13. 颜 | |
| Components | |
| 颜 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 顏 | |
| 色 | |
| 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) |
Translations for 色 and their definitions
| 色 | |
| 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) |
| 顏色 | |
| 1. n. color | |
| 眼睛jing 顏色 - eye color | |
| 要 找出 適合 你 的 顏色。 - Find a color that suits you. | |
| 2. n. face; look; expression | |
| 3. n. good looks (of a woman) | |
| 4. n. amazing skill or ability | |
| 5. n. pigment |
| 颜色 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 顏色 |
| 彩色 | |
| 1. adj. (attributive) color (as opposed to black-and-white) | |
| 2. n. color; multicolor |
| 上色 | |
| 1. adj. (attributive) top-quality; top-grade | |
| 2. v. to colour; to dye |
| 著色 | |
| 1. v. to put color on; to color |
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary
Pronunciation
yán sè
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