颜色
yán sè 2–4
color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff
- Characters
- 2
- 颜 · 色
- Syllables
- 2
- yán sè
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,880
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 颜yán15 strokesHSK 2 traditional 顏face, facial appearance
- 色sè6 strokesHSK 2color, tint, hue, shade; form, body; beauty, desire for beauty; Kangxi radical 139
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
颜色深了些。
Yán sè shēn le xiē
The colour is a bit too dark.
有多少种颜色？
Yǒu duō shao zhǒng yán sè
How many colors are there?
它的颜色是红的。
Tā de yán sè shì hóng de
Its color is red.
你的车什么颜色？
Nǐ de chē shén me yán sè
What color is your car?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 颜色. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 角色jué sèHSK 4
role; character in a novel; persona; also pr. [jiǎo sè]
- 色sèHSK 4
color; look; appearance; sex
- 出色chū sèHSK 4
remarkable; outstanding
- 红色hóng sèHSK 2
red (color); revolutionary
- 黑色hēi sèHSK 2
black
- 绿色lǜ sèHSK 2
green
- 白色bái sèHSK 2
white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist
- 蓝色lán sèHSK 2
blue (color)
- 特色tè sèHSK 3
characteristic; distinguishing feature or quality
- 黄色huáng sèHSK 2
yellow (color); pornographic
- 色彩sè cǎiHSK 4
tint; coloring; coloration; (fig.) flavor; character
- 脸色liǎn sèHSK 5
complexion; look
- 粉色fěn sè
pink; white; erotic; beautiful woman; powdered (with make-up)
- 灰色huī sèHSK 5
gray; ash gray; grizzly; pessimistic; gloomy; dispirited; ambiguous
- 彩色cǎi sèHSK 3
color; multicolored
- 景色jǐng sèHSK 3
scenery; scene; landscape; view
- 棕色zōng sè
brown
- 本色běn sèHSK 7
inherent qualities; natural qualities; distinctive character; true qualities
- 气色qì sè
complexion
- 神色shén sè
expression; look
- 容颜róng yánHSK 7
mien; complexion
- 眼色yǎn sèHSK 7
signal made with one's eyes; meaningful glance
- 形形色色xíng xíng sè sèHSK 7
all kinds of; all sorts of; every (different) kind of
- 逊色xùn sèHSK 7
inferior (often in the combination 毫无逊色, not in the least inferior)