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彩色

cǎi sè

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

彩色 (cǎi sè) means "color; multicolored". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 彩色 means

1. color
2. multicolored

The characters in 彩色

• 彩cǎi(bright) color; variety; applause
• 色sècolor; look; appearance

Example sentences

• 请给我一卷彩色胶片。
  Qǐng gěi wǒ yī juǎn cǎisè jiāopiàn.
  One roll of color film, please.
• 我的书包里有很多彩色笔，红的，蓝的，绿的，等等。
  Wǒ de shūbāo lǐ yǒu hěn duōcǎi sè bǐ, hóng de, lán de, lǜ de, děngděng.
  Inside my backpack there are many colored pens, red ones, blue ones, green ones, etc.
• 修女从黑色裙子的褶皱间掏出剪刀，熟练地将彩色纸剪成长而窄的纸条，让我们可以把这些纸条编成纸地毯。
  From between the pleats of her black skirt, the nun brought out scissors and deftly cut coloured paper into long, narrow strips, which we could then braid into a paper rug.

Words starting with 彩色

• 彩色电视cǎi sè diàn shìcolor television
• 彩色笔cǎi sè bǐcolored pencil (or crayon or marker etc); (Taiwan) color marker

Words containing 彩色

• 真彩色zhēn cǎi sètrue color
• 特艺彩色Tè yì cǎi sèTechnicolor
• 经丝彩色显花jīng sī cǎi sè xiǎn huāwarp brocade; woven fabric with single woof but colored warp

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