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灰色 (huī sè): meaning and stroke order

灰色 (huī sè) means gray, ash gray, grizzly, pessimistic, gloomy, dispirited, ambiguous.

灰色

Simplified
灰色
Traditional
灰色 (same form)
Pinyin
huī sè

Stroke order of 灰色

灰

  • huī ash; dust
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

色

  • sè color; CL:種|种[zhong3]
  • shǎi (coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5]
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 灰色

  1. huī sè
    • gray
    • ash gray
    • grizzly
    • pessimistic
    • gloomy
    • dispirited
    • ambiguous

Radicals of the characters

灰
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 6 strokes · built from 𠂇 and 火
色
Radical 色 (Kangxi radical 139) · 6 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

灰色 in our stories

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  • 最后，转盘上只剩下一个灰色的箱子，跟他的一模一样。

    zuìhòu zhuànpán shàng zhǐ shèng xià yí gè huīsè de xiāngzi gēn tā de yìmú-yíyàng

    In the end only one grey suitcase was left on the carousel, exactly like his.

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

  • 他找了好几天，终于看到一个只要九十九块的灰色沙发，照片上看起来非常舒服。

    tā zhǎo le hǎojǐ tiān zhōngyú kàndào yí gè zhǐ yào jiǔshíjiǔ kuài de huīsè shāfā zhàopiàn shàng kànqilai fēicháng shūfu

    After searching for days he finally found a grey sofa for only ninety-nine yuan, and in the photo it looked very comfortable.

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

Stories using 灰色

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).