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特色

tè sè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

特色 (tè sè) means "characteristic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 特色 means

1. a characteristic; a distinctive feature or quality

The characters in 特色

• 特tèspecial; unique; distinguished
• 色sècolor; look; appearance

Example sentences

• 这里的特色菜是什么？
  What is the specialty food here?
• 你们这儿什幺菜最有特色？
  What's your most special dish?
• 日本有许多别具一格的特色。
  Rìběn yǒu xǔduō biéjùyīgé de tèsè.
  Japan has many distinctive traits.
• 所谓的＂男性特色教育学＂根本就不存在。
  Suǒwèi de ＂ nánxìng tèsè jiàoyùxué ＂ gēnběn jiù bù cúnzài.
  There is no "masculine" way of learning.
• 由于它的起源，加拿大英语具有美国英语和​​英国英语两者的特色。
  Yóuyú tā de qǐyuán, Jiānádà Yīngyǔ jùyǒu Měiguó Yīngyǔ hé ​​ Yīngguó Yīngyǔ liǎngzhě de tèsè.
  Because of its origins, Canadian English has features of both American and British English.
• 怀特说，人们会带给工人路易斯安那风格的美食——鹿肉义大利面和当地特色菜什锦饭，来表达他们的感激之情。
  White says people have been showing their appreciation by bringing comfort food to the workers, Louisiana-style — spaghetti with venison and the local specialty, jambalaya.

Words containing 特色

• 中国特色社会主义Zhōng guó tè sè shè huì zhǔ yìsocialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to…

Where 特色 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · táo–tí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tè sè correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.