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颜色 (yán sè): meaning and stroke order

颜色 (yán sè) means color, countenance, appearance, facial expression, pigment, dyestuff.

颜色

Simplified
颜色
Traditional
顏色
Pinyin
yán sè

Stroke order of 颜色

颜

  • Yán surname Yan
  • yán color; face
  • yán Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 顏

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 颜色

  1. yán sè Traditional 顏色
    • color
    • countenance
    • appearance
    • facial expression
    • pigment
    • dyestuff

Radicals of the characters

颜
Radical 页 (Kangxi radical 181) in its simplified form · 15 strokes · 彦 on the left, 页 on the right
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.

颜色 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 她走遍天下，找来五种颜色的石头，用大火炼了九天九夜，炼成了能补天的五色石。

    tā zǒubiàn tiānxià zhǎolái wǔ zhǒng yánsè de shítou yòng dà huǒ liàn le jiǔ tiān jiǔ yè liàn chéng le néng bǔ tiān de wǔsèshí

    She travelled the whole world, gathered stones of five colours and smelted them in a great fire for nine days and nine nights, until they became five-coloured stones that could mend the sky.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 颜色

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).